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Re: Laptop advice



On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:48:35AM -0400, Brett Viren wrote:
> I've recently been shopping for a T61.  It is easy to stay below $1k
> and hard to go much above $1.5k.  Given their specs, I would call this
> "cheap".  Also, the fact that it comes with SuSE pre-installed means
> little worry about putting Debian on it.

Not quite.  I have seen comapnies provide binary only drivers for redhat
and suse, which do nothing to help anyone else (and little to help the
redhat/suse users who want to change or upgrade anything).  I doubt that
is the case with the thinkpad though.  It's more of a Dell thing to do.

-- 
Len Soresen


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