Suggestions for laptop purchase for Fedora Core 3?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 8 May 2005, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 11:05 -0700, lloyd545220-trucker at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>>
>> But the warranty is the kicker. I've dropped my laptop
>> pushing a PCMCIA card right through the Motherboard
>> which was replaced. I've had the mounting hardware
>> holding the screen replaced. And I've had the BIOS
>> battery replaced. All at no cost to me because of that
>> warranty. I travel all over the country and it doesn't
>> matter where I am, the warranty has covered the
>> computer.
>>
>> That is why you go with major brands...
>
> I have always liked IBM laptops - thinkpads.
> They have three mouse buttons.
>
> I do not know how well current models work with Linux, and they soon
> will be built by someone other than IBM.

thinkpads haven't really been build by ibm for a while anyway (contract 
manufacturing being what it is)... I have recent fedora core 3 experience 
with the t42 t42p and x40 all of which work fairly well with fedora. If 
you want accelerated opengl on the t42s with the radeon 9600 or firegl2 
you have to forego acpi suspend because it doesn't work with the 
proprietary ati driver... all of the ibm that use intel built-in video 
sleep with minor effort.

> My T20 (an older model) works in FC Rawhide with a few issues, sound
> doesn't work (it does in FC3) at the moment, and virtual consoles don't
> work if running X11, etc. - hopefully those issues get wrinkled out
> before FC4. A current IBM laptop though I believe uses different video
> and different sound chipset (I'm not positive) - I have no idea how well
> T42 does or does not work with Linux - but I do like the fact that it
> has three mouse buttons on the laptop, no one else seems to offer that -
> I don't know why.
>
> I *believe* built in wireless on current ibm models requires
> ndiswrapper, I *think* they use broadcom chipset.
>
>

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