I have an ACER 53xx series and although i dont have FC6 on it (Xandros 4 and Mandriva 2k7) I can say that I have been VERY happy w/ the pc, and the price.
J
----- Original Message -----
From: John Bowden <john.bowden43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:46 am
Subject: Re: Laptop recomendations
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alan" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Laptop recomendations
>
>
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 16:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >>> Also, know that Dell provides NO HELP to the linux community, in
> >>> contrast to HP. At least, as far as PDA's go. I'm sorry that I
> >>> purchased a x50v and swore that it would be the last of my Dell
> >>> hardware. But I was stupid and gave them my money for this
> lappy. I'd
> >>> suggest pressuring Dell by NOT buying their equipment.
> >>
> >> I have a Dell Latitude D800. It works quite well, except for a few
> >> buttons. But, then I don't need them anyway, so no loss. The only
> >> thing I don't like is the 1920x1200 res LCD. I thought it
> would be
> >> nice, but the resolution is too high for the 15.4" LCD.
> >
> > I have a 1920x1200 display on my HP. Its main purpose is to
> make people
> > drool. I actually like having the resolution that tiny. I just
> wish that
> > they would have put more video ram in ti. As for the buttons,
> there is a
> > mapping utility in X that I used to map them to applications in
> Gnome.
> > Worked pretty well. (Still don't use them, but I could map them.)
> >
> >> Though my Dell laptop experience has been good, I'm going to be
> getting>> a business grade HP or Lenovo laptop next time. I'm
> leaning heavily
> >> towards HP at the moment.
> >
> > The thing that convinced me to buy an HP was their 3 year
> warrenty. They
> > will fix any damage to the laptop during that period. I have
> had to use
> > it only twice, but it was well worth it. (Once for a dead power
> brick.
> > Once when I got the PCMCIA ejector button caught on my laptop
> bag and
> > ripped it out.) I would recommend buying an extra hard drive as
> well. HP
> > will reformat and reinstall Windows on your machine every time
> it goes in
> > for warrenty. (And not even an updated and patched copy, but
> the original
> > disk image!)
> >
> > As for device support... I have gotten pretty much everything
> working on
> > my HP. The Winmodem is an unknown, since I do not use it. (As
> well as
> > having a very good PCMCIA modem back when they made such
> things.) There
> > is also a memory adapter that I just need firmware for. Of
> course, I
> > bought it two and a half years ago, so it has had time for the
> drivers to
> > catch up with it...
> >
> > --
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> explains
> > nothing."
> > - University of Utah bioengineering professor
> Gregory
> > Clark
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> >
> >From what peole are telling me on and off list, I will give Dell
> a miss.
> Still not shure about the Lenovo build quality, so the choice
> seems to be HP
> or Acer. Thanks for the advice and keep it comming as I will make
> my final
> decision tomorrow. The second hard drive tip is handy to know as I
> should
> think that most of the manufactures do somthing similar
>
>
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