Linux and laptops

Thomas Ward slingshooter at valkyrie.net
Wed Aug 14 07:07:14 EDT 2002


Hi. Personally, IBM Thinkpad's would be my first choice. Especially the T20
series of notebooks. However, IBM's are extremely on the expencive side.
However, they seam to work great with Linux.

Second, I have found tosheba notebooks to work great with Linux. They do
have a couple of drawbacks that I don't like. They have Win modems, but the
modems will work with a win modem driver for Linux that is out.  Second, all
of them now days don't have serial ports, and you have to hunt up a pcmcia
serial port to drop in it.

Other than that the price is right, and Tosheba notebooks have been pretty
good. All of them come with Winblows XP, and well if I flatten it, and put
linux on my notebook, and they griped about it my words to the manufacturer
would be, "deal with
it."






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