Derek Glidden wrote:
> It's the sad state of laptop hardware that makes me even mention it. I
> spent several months shopping for a new laptop that I could run linux on
> and still wound up with a Dell that locks up about twice a day for no
> particular reason. It's not that any of the hardware isn't supported;
> in fact all the hardware in it is extremely well supported by linux.
> It's just that it's a PoS laptop. Maybe I should have known better with
> Dell, but as it was, it was one of three models that a) I could afford
> and b) had hardware that was fully supported by linux. Everything else
> was either ridiculously expensive or had some component (firewire, USB,
> PCMCIA, video) that was some oddball manufacturer/model that made me
> doubt I could get linux running on it reliably or at all.
>
> And yeah my powerbook was more expensive than the dell, but after the
> fact, when I consider the amount of time I've spent unsuccessfully
> trying to get linux stable on the Dell, and the amount of stress it's
> caused me considering how much I did spend on it, and how it still locks
> up randomly whenever it feels like it, I wish I had just bought the
> powerbook to begin with.
>
> Not that any of it is the problem of linux developers - it's just the
> same old sad old story we're all familiar with, "As long as it runs
> windows...." The difficulty in getting a laptop running linux anymore
> was more than enough to drive me to Apple. And frankly, I really like
> my powerbook and OS X now that I've used it for a while.
I'm shopping now for a laptop that runs Linux well. I just gave away my
old Dell Inspiron. It ran Linux decently, but I was disappointed with
the ruggedness of the parts. Lots of things fell off. Little pieces of
plastic chipped away, etc.. My Toshiba Satellite is very well supported
under Linux, but not so for the newer models. The Thinkpad T22 is a
perfect size and weight, but the video is not well supported and I need
to turn off all accelerations or else it locks up on some graphics. All
said, I'm looking at another Thinkpad (likely the T40 or T41) or
possibly the base PowerBook.
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