On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:49:26 -0700, Mike Hoy <mhoy4(a)cox.net> wrote:
[snip]
I bought a compq r3000 presario and have it all working fine, but i
wouldn't do it again had i had the chance to. he offered to install
linux on it for me but said it would cost more thatn 350 bucks because
he has no experience writing kernels for compaq/hp.
bottom line:
buy a IBM t-21 or later
or a dell with nvidia card
don't buy HP/Compaq - not that they're impossible to setup, mine works,
but major headache
[snip]
I have an R3000Z and it works great with Linux. There are several
types of R3000s: a P4 version, AMD Athlon XP version, and Athlon 64
version. Mine is an AMD64 machine and works great with FC3 x86_64.
There are a few issues, sure, but with a modern laptop there is almost
sure to be something that you will have to work out. I have certainly
had no problems that were "major headache"s (Mike didn't say, but
maybe he has the P4 version, I don't know). And many of the initial
problems have been worked out in recent BIOS updates and with time as
some issues are 64-bit specific (ndiswrapper only recently became
usable with 64-bit, for instance). Anyway, the R3000 also has a
mailing list that I've posted here many times where most issues that
have come up have been solved. Many people are using these machines
(especially the 64-bit ones) with Linux. Don't count it out,
especially because of the 64-bit.
Jonathan