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Posted by yamahasw40 on March 9, 2005, 9:28 pm
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As part of the company's desktop replacement strategy, I'm being given
an effectively unlimited budget to purchase a laptop. After trawling
the various vendors websites, I'm confused as ever.
Here are a list of my wants, and your comments would be very much
appreciated.
Must Haves
* 15" or larger screen, widescreen preferable
* Dual bootable Linux (any major flavor) and Windows XP (for work
compatible things), with solid linux support for USB, Video and
Networking.
* Fat processor (ie, not Celeron)
* Serial port, possibly via USB-serial converter, for Cisco, Sun,
Brocade etc diagnostics.
* DVD reader that can be made "region free"
* 802.11b/g
* 1GB RAM, 80GB HD or better
* On board ethernet, VGA port, USB 2.0, etc.. but these look pretty
standard on everything.
* Solid as a rock
Wants, but can live withouts
* DVR+/-RW (region free reading)
* Dedicated graphics memory
* DVI port
* Linux compatible in-built modem
* 5.1 sound
* headphone jack
I'd love a Mac, but most of the in-house applications are strictly
Windows only, and given that this is desktop replacement, I don't have
the luxury of both platforms.
I'm looking at the Toshiba Satellite P30, but their Linux support
doens't seem too great. What's everybody else using?
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Posted by johnny bobby bee on March 10, 2005, 8:12 am
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yamahasw40@latinmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking at the Toshiba Satellite P30, but their Linux support
> doens't seem too great. What's everybody else using?
IBM Thinkpads, of course.
;)
--
When you say: "I wrote a program that crashed Windows",
people just stare at you blankly and say: "Hey, I got those
with the system -- for free."
- Linus Torvalds
(remove _eh to email)
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Posted by John Doue on March 10, 2005, 3:08 pm
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> yamahasw40@latinmail.com wrote:
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>> I'm looking at the Toshiba Satellite P30, but their Linux support
>> doens't seem too great. What's everybody else using?
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> IBM Thinkpads, of course.
> ;)
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>
As long as you do not object to IBM giving away the ranch to China ...
--
John Doue
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Posted by James Knott on March 10, 2005, 10:22 am
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> As long as you do not object to IBM giving away the ranch to China ...
You'd have a tough time, finding any notebook that's not substantially made
in Asia.
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Posted by Rick Carter on March 11, 2005, 8:22 pm
Please log in for more thread options > John Doue wrote:
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> > As long as you do not object to IBM giving away the ranch to China ...
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> You'd have a tough time, finding any notebook that's not substantially made
> in Asia.
What I'd really like to know is if there are any early indications whether
service under warranty is going to still be as good as it has been. Does
anybody know how that is affected by the deal? Are the service reps being
outsourced overseas? Any good experiences, or horror stories?
Rick Carter
carterrk@despammed.com
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