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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:45:24 +0100
To: Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: any brand recomendation for a linux laptop ?
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:00:45AM +0100, Nicolas Turro wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> I am software engineer at a french research institute, in charge of the linux 
> support on about 600 computers. I am looking for laptops whith linux
> support/certification. I couln't find any recent laptop model on your
> certification page. Would you recomend me any brand of computer ?
> We curently buy Compaq Evos laptops, but enabling linux on those laptops
> is terrible :
> - power management seems to be ACPI only (which linux barely supports)
> - sound is hard or impossible to setup correctly.
> 
> Any help/advice would be apreciated.
>  

You might consider other archs as ppc for example, especially
if you really don't care about windows OS and you want more power
saving on battery.

Cheers,

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Ducrot Bruno
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