Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

[Nikolay Bitsadze <nikobit@gmail.com>]

Same for Toshiba Satellite A200 Series. I own A200 1GH. Everything runs
out of the box. Did not check out modem though :)
В Срд, 17/02/2010 в 17:00 -0500, Robert Goley пишет:
> I would agree that many are support now.  I have had a lot of luck with 
> Toshiba.  They seem to have more models that have compliant components.  
> If you want a serious development laptop, Look at the X505 series.  I 
> ordered one with a quad core i7 series with hyperthreading 6 GB ram, 64 
> GB solid state and 320 GB HDs.  It acts like 8 processors to linux.  
> Using the -j8 fage for make this makes compiles go real fast in most 
> cases...  The only catches were having to load the Nvidia drivers and 
> having to install the Realtek wireless driver from their site.  The 
> Nvidia is not opensource but works well.  The Tealtek is distrubuted as 
> source but not sure on licensing.  Can't remember off the top of my 
> head.  Everything else worked out of the box with Lenny.  I did use the 
> backports 2.6.30 kernel though...  Even things like the webcam worked 
> with no issues....
> 
> Robert