On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 01:34 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote: > However, I am in a fix now. I need to buy a high end laptop, (4 GB > RAM, 200 GB HDD, 17" Screen, Touchpad, Integrated Webcam and Full > Multimedia, so that the system can double as a Personal Entertainment > Device High End Audio/Video on long trips). I will need to run Centos > & Windows virtualized with Xen or some other hypervisor, for my some > of my office applications If it's CentOS you're interested in, you're on the wrong list. But I bought a fairly new Asus laptop at the end of last year, and just about everything works on it (haven't tried firewire, the multi-card reader only manages to read SD-RAM cards, the webcam isn't usable). Using Ubuntu on the same laptop, the webcam does work. Before I bought the computer, I spent quite a lot of time researching the models that I could buy locally. What hardware they had, and what was known to work or not work on Linux. I'd say that the main things to look for would be: Graphics chipset Wireless chipset Card reader chipset Type of webcam Audio chipset (not sure if this is the big problem it used to be) -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
