Re: [LUG] Laptop recommendations please

["Luke" <luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

The question is how much have you got to spend? You can install Linux on
many different laptops although some are a lot more reliable (hardware) and
more robust then others, although at the same time everyone's mileage
varies.

The best bet is to have a look at what you like and then google and see what
the experience is of others using that model with Linux. Which Dist would
you like to use?

I currently have a Compaq armada e500 which happily runs a Debian mix of
stable/testing. All the PCMCIA/Touchpad/Ethernet etc work with no problems.
I am having a bit of jip with sound, but to be honest I don't really need it
anyway. I also have a partition that contains Win2k so that I can work with
work an NT environment as well.

When you say boot off a network - do you mean run a dhcp client, if so yes.
If you mean have the laptop join a NT domain, yes you can using SAMBA.

Hope that helps :¬)

Luke
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Wonnacott" <jwon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:02 AM
Subject: [LUG] Laptop recommendations please


> Can anyone recommend a good laptop?
> I want to be able to dual boot into Linux and XP
> (sorry but its part of my job :-( )
> and if possible boot off a network.
> Any suggestions please.
>
> James
>
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