Re: Laptop recommendation
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 17:19 -0700, K7AAY john@503bartley.com wrote:
> On 10/17/06, Owen Heisler <owen@owenh.hopto.org> wrote:
> I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should
> look...
>
> It would be really great if it was fully supported by the
> Linux kernel
> (maybe even video acceleration as well? Is there such a
> thing?),
> without all the annoying fiddling.
>
> Next, I don't know if it is really possible with laptops, but
> one that
> is friendly where hardware replacements are concerned. Like
> if the hard
> drive or DVD drive goes bad, that it is relatively
> simple/cheap to
> replace them.
>
>
> ThinkPads are modular, easier to swap out parts on them than others.
> Dell would be my second choice.
That's two for ThinkPads!
>
> In fact, I'd like to find a laptop that is a bit bigger
> and heavier and bulkier and whatever in order to get a little
> bit more
> friendliness with hardware and heat problems and whatnot.
>
> Last: are there any laptops with 2 hard drives?
>
> Look at three spindle (Floppy drive / hard drive / optical drive)
> machines & see if you can substitute a second HD for the FD.
Okay
> Otherwise, get a PC Card hard drive and put it in the PC Card slot.
Wow, physical hard drives in PC cards?
> I've put Xbuntu and Ubuntu on Dells and ThinkPads, no huhu.
Splendid.
Thanks
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