Re: Laptop advice
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:30:06PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
> How to assess cheapness? I saw that prices span quite a large range...
> Everyone here seems to agree that a ThinkPad is "nice" but expensive. So what
> does one get for the higher price (with respect to other laptops)?
They do tend to have rather solid cases on them, unlike the thin plastic
used by many other companies. So far I am quite pleased with the build
quality of the Asus R1F which has a lot more stuff for a lot less than
IBM could provide a year ago when we got that one and it too runs linux
very well (same video, wireless, etc).
> This one (ThinkPad R61) is currently a special offer at my usual IT shop:
> http://www5.pc.ibm.com/europe/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_NF0FDxx?open&OpenDocument&epi=web_express
>
> It seems that it has all the recommended components. Any gotchas I should
> be aware of?
I have no idea if the modem works, but certainly video, audio, wireless,
screen, pointer, etc should all work fine with 2.6.22 or higher kernel.
Etch would not work so well.
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Len Sorensen
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