On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:09:10 +0200 Reinhard Tartler <siretart@meinungsverstaerker.de> wrote: > > Hy Folks. > > Let me introduce myself, as i'm new on this list: I'm a student of > computer science from Erlangen, Germany, and I am going to buy a new > Notebook with an Pentium-M. I wanted to ask you which one you would > recommend. I currently have a Toshiba M15-S405. I have consistently had good results with Toshiba, so that's what I would recommend (although I'm not sure how mine ranks with the ones you were looking at wrt price). > I know that most WLAN onboard chips won't work, but that's > ok, because i will use an cardbus card instead. I do this as well, even though I am waiting for the hardware specs to be released :o) > I looked at IBM Thinkpad R40 Notebooks as well als Dell's Latitude > D400 and D500 notebooks. Both look promising. I've read many > controversial reports on the R40, most of them are complaining about not > working suspend features. Could you please comment on this? I've never actually used BIOS suspend on a laptop. I usually use Software Suspend. It works excellently in 2.4.x with patches from swsusp.sf.net. It is mostly ok in 2.6.0-testX-mmN (which is what I typically use). It has never worked for me in 2.6.0-testX (aka without an mm patch). > Or recommend another brand? > > Thank you for your responses. > Regards, > Reinhard -- ) http://www.cuodan.net/~xsdg/ xsdg@freenode.org ( | Didn't Ben Franklin once say it is better to keep | | your mouth shut and to be thought an idiot than | | to open it and not get laid? |
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