On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 22:00 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > For my .02 FRN, > > I am right now using a Sony PCG-GRT170. It's a wonderful machine, but > it suffers from all the "unique" aspects of a Sony Vaio machine. > Almost none of the special keys work, hardware volume control, stuff > like that. It all worked under WinXP, which it came with, of course. I had (and still have) a lot of sony laptops - and there is nothing to say against them running Debian (sid). There is no problem using the "special keys" to control brightness, volume etc. Even the modems work (if you need it). Of course, these things do not work out of the box. But if you google a bit, you will get all the additional bits and pieces. Today I'm using a Panasonic R3, mostly because it runs on battery for (at least) 6 hours... cheers, Hp. > > But it has a 15" nVidia AGP driven screen, DVD/CD writer, great sound, > etc etc etc. I like it, but I had to fiddle with it to get all the > primary hardware working. > > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ is a good reference, you can look up > a model you like and see what other people have done to get theirs > working. Don't forget to contribute your own experiences. > > http://www.linuxcertified.com/ Linux Certified and > > http://www.emperorlinux.com/ Emporer Linux > > sell laptops with Linux pre-installed, including Debian. It sort of > takes the fun out of it, but it takes out the stress too. > > I will echo what others have said about the IBM laptops. They are > indeed built like tanks. I never got a taste for the red-eraser > joystick, however, so I didn't buy one. > > Also, I liked the challenge of the Sony Vaio. I know it's sick of me, > still I like to know that I'm running nasty cutting-edge stuff > sometimes. I'm also thinking about home-building a dual-Athalon > server for no good reason, just to play with SMP. > > Curt- > > > > > > -- > September 11th, 2001 > The proudest day for gun control and central > planning advocates in American history > -- Hanspeter Kunz Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology Email: hkunz@ailab.ch University of Zurich Tel: +41.(0)44.63-54306 Andreasstrasse 15, Office 2.12 http://ailab.ch/people/hkunz CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland Spamtraps: hkunz.bogus@ailab.ch hkunz.bogus@ifi.unizh.ch --- Do unto others before they undo you.
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