On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 17:19 -0700, K7AAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10/17/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should > look... > > It would be really great if it was fully supported by the > Linux kernel > (maybe even video acceleration as well? Is there such a > thing?), > without all the annoying fiddling. > > Next, I don't know if it is really possible with laptops, but > one that > is friendly where hardware replacements are concerned. Like > if the hard > drive or DVD drive goes bad, that it is relatively > simple/cheap to > replace them. > > > ThinkPads are modular, easier to swap out parts on them than others. > Dell would be my second choice.
That's two for ThinkPads! > > In fact, I'd like to find a laptop that is a bit bigger > and heavier and bulkier and whatever in order to get a little > bit more > friendliness with hardware and heat problems and whatnot. > > Last: are there any laptops with 2 hard drives? > > Look at three spindle (Floppy drive / hard drive / optical drive) > machines & see if you can substitute a second HD for the FD. Okay > Otherwise, get a PC Card hard drive and put it in the PC Card slot. Wow, physical hard drives in PC cards? > I've put Xbuntu and Ubuntu on Dells and ThinkPads, no huhu. Splendid. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
