[KLUG Members] Question On Linux Friendly laptop

[Brock Inglehart]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:25 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:07 -0500, Michael Lueck wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:56:45 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 
> > >For durability there is only IBM.
> > 
> > "WAS" since they sold.
> 
> Nah, the company (the one starting with L) is the company that has been
> manufacturing their PC and laptop gear for years.  I don't expect any
> change in quality,  they get to keep the Thinkpad name so IBM must be
> pretty confident they aren't going to crappify their stuff.
> 
> > I have my eye on a Dell Precision M70 with nVidia Quaddro graphics, 7200RPM
> > disk, etc... Seems to be the only laptop out there with the mobile Quaddro
> > chips.
> 
> We go through lots of laptops here;  you couldn't PAY me to own a Dell.
> Flimsy garbage with an astonishing failure rate; like 3 out of 5 LCDs
> fritzing in the first 6 months, hard drives that don't even make it a
> year, and on an on.  HP/Compaqs have been pretty solid except for
> touchpad/keyboard issues (and being really slow compared to other
> models).   Toshiba's have been quite solid, you get ~2 years before they
> start to physically fall apart (although they still 'work').  IBMs are
> IBMs,  they keep going long after you wish they would just die already.

We have a Compac 64 bit laptop with Suse 9.2 and most things work fine
EXCEPT the wireless.  We are still looking for a way to get it to work.
Other than that, for its first 6 months, no complaints.
Brock and Leola.
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