On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > I would say > > Avoid toshiba
This isn't quite fair to Mr. Amsden, who it seems has a lot of experience with linux on laptops, but--please be careful with statements that lump together all laptops of a certain brand. Experiences with a few representatives of a brand are not sufficient to generalize. If you look through Mr. Harker's linux-laptops page, you'll find some happy Toshiba users as well as some less happy ones, and the same is true across all brands. I'm guessing that only a very small percentage of laptop buyers are expecting to make significant use of GNU/Linux, and even fewer are planning to use exclusively GNU/Linux. As a result, no-one thinks too hard about, say, replacing a perfectly good hardware modem in one model with a winmodem in the next (otherwise extremely similar) model. So you just have to research individual models, unless you can find someone who will sell your OS of choice pre-installed. I'm quite happy with my Sony 505tr, but it's over a year old now (and it's discontinued), and from what I've heard the newer Sony 505's aren't as good for Linux. But, again, it may well depend on the particular model. Research, research, research.... --Bruce F.
