[PLUG] Laptop recomendations

[alan]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > > Any other comments? Ideas? Rants?
> >
> > The propietary issues might be too much for you, but thought about Apple
> > hardware?
> 
>   And now that folks have dissected the video chips and drivers I'll chirp
> up and suggest contacting one of the companies that specialize in selling
> portables with linux pre-installed and working. As I've written before, the
> folks at Emperor Linux make sure everything works, provide outstanding
> support and will install the distribution of your choice. Let them do the
> research, worrying and tweaks to make everything work.

The type of work I am going to be doing on the laptop requires me to wipe 
the drive on occasion.  

I am used to getting weird hardware to work.  Remember i had a Sony Vaio.  
(The machine that the head of the FreeSWAN project almost threw at the 
wall when we first tried to install Linux on it. And I got it working...)

>   They sell an IBM ThinkPad model that won Linux Journal's Product of the
> Year for the category of portable machines; it's the one Doc Searls hauls
> all over the country and he sang the praises of both the hardware and
> Emperor Linux.

I have been tempted.  It is just hard when i can get an Athlon 64 laptop 
at more than twice the speed and half the money fdrom HP.

>   There are other such companies advertising in LJ but I have experience
> only with Emperor Linux. Very highly recommended.

I will look at them.