I am very happy with my Sharp 9080. You may be able to get one for just over $3000 - I paid over $4k last fall.
The key feature of this laptop is the absolutely beautiful color active matrix screen with 1024x768 resolution, which may be key to your applications. I struggled for a month to get X running on it, but managed to do so with the help of the XFree folks. There is now a beta X server available that handles the S3 Aurora chip in this machine. Everything else runs fine right out of the box. I have consolidated all my work onto this machine as I find he screen much easier to look at than my 17 inch NEC monitors. ml David wrote: Hi, I am new to this list. I apologize in advance for asking a question that is probably fairly common. I will buy a laptop sometime soon and would like it to run X windows under Debian Linux. I am trying to set up something that is as much like the sun sparc 2 I have at work as possible (but spend around $3000!). The programs that I use the most are emacs, TeX, and various technical math programs, usually shareware things written in C, but I will probably also run Maple. I program in perl and C. If anyone out there has an opinion about which laptop to get and where I would greatly appreciate advice. Thanks, Dave -- Michael Laing, President _|_|_|_| _| _| _| _|_|_| Foster Laing & Noonan, Inc. _| _| _|_| _| _| [EMAIL PROTECTED] 207.832.6372 _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _| Internet Software Developers _| _| _| _|_| _| _____and Consultants__________| _|_|_|_| _| _| _|_|_| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
