Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Hello,
I am interested in buying a laptop. A key requirement would be that it ran Linux (Kubuntu) smoothly and that all the hardware was supported, not neccessarily by *open* source drivers as binary drivers would be okay eg NVIDIA drivers.
I would be interested to read comments on what would might be a good model or vendor and advice on hardware options that definitely struggle to work?
I realise that there are all sorts of websites for advice but sometimes the models aren't readily avaiable here. If someone has recently bought a laptop that they are really happy with Linux wise, I'd be interested to know.
Options I am interested in moderately large screen, nvidia graphics card, intel duo and linux support camera and wifi.
Thoughts, comments appreciated.
I have a Dell Precision M65 (core duo, nvidia, intel wifi) and I am very happy with it using Kubuntu (currently on 6.10, but was good with 6.06 too). However I don't need the modem, IR, or firewire so I've never bothered to see if those work. The only setup customisation I needed was xorg.conf so that it would auto detect whether it has an external monitor attached and configure appropriately. Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz