Funny: My only experience with a laptop (for myself) has only
had Linux on it (Debian). A couple IBM's and now a little Dell LS400.

Only problems I have had are with the sound cards. Never did any to work, yet
I never gave it much effort. In fact, I have never tried on my Dell.

Never have bought a notebook, either they have been hand-me-downs, or the
company has purchased them for me. Can't help you there.


On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:47:50PM -0700, Jonathan Claxton wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, bob smith wrote:
> 
> > I've been thinking about purchasing a laptop. I was
> > curious about the experiences that some of you have
> > had using Linux on a laptop? Also anybody know if I
> > can pick up a 1GHz PIII3M notebook for under $2000?
> > Any recommendations?
> > 
> 
> I have a Sony PCG-F650. It has PIII-650, 192 megs mem, 12 gb disk and ATI
> Rage Mobility vid chip. It's running RH 7.2 now.
> 
> I had problems running X on it until I got a pre X 4.10 version and the
> sound chip didn't want to work until I got a kernel that can run it. This
> under RH 7.1.
> 
> Under RH 7.2, it detects all including the IBM 10/100-modem PC card except
> for the modem chip and it runs just fine. 
> 
> The important thing to know is make sure that whatever laptop you get will
> work under Linux. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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