Re: [OT]Re: best labtop for debian

2011-04-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:08:37 +0100, Simon wrote in message <1297192117.1610.6.camel@Nokia-N900>: > > Not kidding, is labtop a real word? > As for being a member of the words listed in an English dictionary > I'd state no. It is a misspelled form of laptop, I blindly guess. ..I'd say it depends o

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-23 Thread Petrus Validus
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:27:44PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:33:21PM -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: > > on them. The only trouble I have with mine is getting the SD card slot > > to work and the fingerprint reader working but since I am not Agent 007 > > I don't th

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:33:21PM -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: > on them. The only trouble I have with mine is getting the SD card slot > to work and the fingerprint reader working but since I am not Agent 007 > I don't think I really need to worry about the latter. I wouldn't fancy "losing"

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 21 February 2011 16:47:10 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/2011 04:05 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:34:56 -0600 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote: > > Why should that be? The decision to support linux is > > basically the decision t

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 04:05 PM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:34:56 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilsonwrote: ...

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:34:56 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: > >>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 > >>> shawn wilson wrote: > >>> > >>> ... > >>>

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
> Any takes on this? > > What about the Satellites? Support for Satellites can be hit or miss, I've had better luck with the Tecra series. I have 3 of them here at the house and Debian works great on them. The only trouble I have with mine is getting the SD card slot to work and the fingerpr

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: ... whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be a gsm modem, fingerp

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 > > shawn wilson wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might > >> be > >> a gsm modem, fingerprint read

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-19 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:16:27 -0500 Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:10:11PM EST, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:09:23 -0700 > > [..] > > > Good to know, thanks - I've heard that before. The keyboard is the one > > thing about which I'm really dissatisfied with my Acer

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-19 Thread Klaus Wolf
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Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Bob
On 02/19/2011 05:52 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On 02/08/2011 10:47 PM, Bob wrote: I was liking the look of the G555 for my farther. Anyone tried one? on the plus side nice big screen, on the down its only 1366x768 I also like the full keyboard etc.. The integrated webcam is only VGA, but is t

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: ... whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be a gsm modem, fingerprint reader, dual mode graphics, no name 802.11 card - stuff like that. Not sure what you mean b

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 05:23 PM, Francis Southern wrote: On 18 February 2011 16:39, shawn wilson wrote: as some have mentioned in this thread, even some of the "Thinkpad"s are sold with cheaper keyboards and other hardware. but, if you read some reviews, spend a little (~$1k should do imo), you'l

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Francis Southern
On 18 February 2011 16:39, shawn wilson wrote: > > > as some have mentioned in this thread, even some of the "Thinkpad"s are sold > with cheaper keyboards and other hardware. but, if you read some reviews, > spend a little (~$1k should do imo), you'll end up with a solid portable. > 1,000 USD

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread shawn wilson
> So the experience in Debian Squeeze is way better than in Windows 7, I'll > say that. > linux users always have it better than windows users :) > > There are 3 USB ports, which work great, But there's no Cardbus slot - I > guess they're eliminating those in many laptops. It has nice memory-card

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/08/2011 10:47 PM, Bob wrote: I was liking the look of the G555 for my farther. Anyone tried one? on the plus side nice big screen, on the down its only 1366x768 I also like the full keyboard etc.. The integrated webcam is only VGA, but is there any real advantage to higher resolution webc

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:10:11PM EST, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:09:23 -0700 [..] > Good to know, thanks - I've heard that before. The keyboard is the one > thing about which I'm really dissatisfied with my Acer Aspire, although > that's not Linux specific. Not sure which particul

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: ... > whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be > a gsm modem, fingerprint reader, dual mode graphics, no name 802.11 card - > stuff like that. Not sure what you mean by a 'no name 802.11 card' - they all

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread shawn wilson
2011/2/16 Nuno Magalhães > Hi > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 03:21, Kumar Appaiah > wrote: > > On a related topic, could you please tell me which of the current > > ThinkPads have the same basic (awesome) feature-set which the old > > favourites (T61, T42 etc.) had? I am genuinely unaware, and wante

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 03:21, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On a related topic, could you please tell me which of the current > ThinkPads have the same basic (awesome) feature-set which the old > favourites (T61, T42 etc.) had? I am genuinely unaware, and wanted to > know if all the ones available to

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:00 Wed 09 Feb, Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > My avoiding use of GNOME/KDE (and hence network-manager and its GUI > > interfaces) doesn't help matters much. I suspect that if I were to run > > one or the other, I'd have fewer problems in that department. > >

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:32:35 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: ... > > if you're going to go with pc hardware sturdiness / design, i'd go lenovo > (or mac). if you're going to go with support (in the us at least) i'd go > with dell and pay for the gold support. i haven't found better for desktops > or s

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:25:07 + Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 15:23 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've neve

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 15:23 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've never u

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 15:23 -0500, Celejar wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by them

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 15:23 -0500, Celejar wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by them

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:06:28AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > I'm happy with my i5 ThinkPad T410 with Intel HD Graphics. > > I have problems with the Realtek 8191SE wireless network > device. The Realtek driver built but didn't appear to > support scanning for wireless networks. > (I didn't manage

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jochen Schulz schreef: hamed hosseini: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ "my choice is lenovo labtop" I have been using an X200 for the last two years and I am still very pleased with it. The X201 is a bit more expensive and features more recent CPU

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > My avoiding use of GNOME/KDE (and hence network-manager and its GUI > interfaces) doesn't help matters much. I suspect that if I were to run > one or the other, I'd have fewer problems in that department. Have you tried wicd? It has a curses interface and so no need for a

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:15 Wed 09 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:24:28 -0800 > "Dr. Ed Morbius" wrote: > > > on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > > never understood what exactly m

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:24:28 -0800 "Dr. Ed Morbius" wrote: > on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've n

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:09:23 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > > understand w

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:02:31 -0500 Allan Wind wrote: > On 2011-02-08T15:23:29, Celejar wrote: > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Christopher Judd
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 21:24:28 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've neve

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Bob
On 02/09/2011 03:45 PM, shawn wilson wrote: i agree, the thinkpad is solid. personally, i got a macbook pro because i wanted 2x+ the battery that even the best thinkpad could offer. however, this isn't linux (bsd at best). SWMBO has a Macbook, I couldn't even access the hard drive from Knoppix

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: > > Of course, a ThinkPad is not perfect for everyone, True. > here are some possible cons: > > - battery life is not very good Depends on the model and the battery. > - quite heavy Dito. My 12" X200 weighs less than 1.5kg. Quite portable, I would say. > - many models have o

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread shawn wilson
i agree, the thinkpad is solid. personally, i got a macbook pro because i wanted 2x+ the battery that even the best thinkpad could offer. however, this isn't linux (bsd at best). i think that linux should work with most any laptop hardware with the exception of the new video cards that switch betw

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Bob
On 02/09/2011 11:21 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: The IBM ThinkPads were always solid equipment and all of the hardware was supported very well. They did what you expected a laptop to do in that all of the peripherals worked with Linux driv

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 08 feb 11, 10:51:12, Jimmy Johnson wrote: hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ "my choice is lenovo labtop" Not kidding, is labtop a real word? Does this count? http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > The IBM ThinkPads were always solid equipment and all of the hardware > was supported very well. They did what you expected a laptop to do in > that all of the peripherals worked with Linux drivers. Networking > worked with native driv

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 15:09:23, Bob Proulx wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > > understand why every

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Celejar wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by them. The IBM ThinkPads were always solid

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Allan Wind
On 2011-02-08T15:23:29, Celejar wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by them. The T and Z

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:06:28 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Peter Beck wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in > > > my experience it's worth it. > > > > ab

[OT]Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Simon Hollenbach
> Not kidding, is labtop a real word? As for being a member of the words listed in an English dictionary I'd state no. It is a misspelled form of laptop, I blindly guess. As for 'valid' word: you cannot create invalid words out of a (valid) combo of valid chars. 'Gans' is such a word, just as 'q

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Peter Beck wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in > > my experience it's worth it. > > absolutely. I was (and still am) using a T42p and now I have a X301

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 10:51:12, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > hamed hosseini wrote: > >i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > >900$-1300$ > >"my choice is lenovo labtop" > > > Not kidding, is labtop a real word? Does this count? http://www.ur

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ "my choice is lenovo labtop" Not kidding, is labtop a real word? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:22 PM, hamed hosseini wrote: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" > Have you seen this? http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To U

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Beck
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in > my experience it's worth it. absolutely. I was (and still am) using a T42p and now I have a X301 which is just great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:52:35 +0330 hamed hosseini wrote: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" On solar power so must use a laptop as a desktop - been using an Acer Aspire 3614WLCI for just over 4 years - rock solid

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 13:52:35, hamed hosseini wrote: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in my experience it's worth it. Regards, Andrei -- Of

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread hamed hosseini
thank you On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > hamed hosseini: > > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > > 900$-1300$ > > "my choice is lenovo labtop" > > I have been using an X200 for the last two years and I am still very

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
hamed hosseini: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" I have been using an X200 for the last two years and I am still very pleased with it. The X201 is a bit more expensive and features more recent CPUs, but you mig

best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread hamed hosseini
i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ "my choice is lenovo labtop"