David Bartmess <dingodave@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'll second that with HP laptops. I have a HP Pavilion ZV5000 that works > flawlessly with Wifi and everything. I've probably got the the Compaq branded version -- V5000Z. You can't go too wrong with the HP or Compaq laptops. Lets face it, HP and Compaq's are dirt cheap, mostly straight reference designs. It means that you can easily get replacement parts scavanged from a large number of other HP/Compaq machines (which is rare for laptops). It also means that there are fewer curve balls the laptop designs throw at Linux. All the important things work well enough. The crunchy parts are the same as for other laptops. Wifi with the "odd" features is a bit lacking. The builtin Broadcomm adaptor is an a/b/g but the linux drivers only know how to run it on b/g. The frambuffer is a stock ATI laptop Radeon, but it really only works in 2D with some 3D done in software. Sleep-to-ram and sleep-to-disk work with some versions of the kernel, but not others. Again, this is fairly normal for most hardware. As soon as SSD drops in price a bit I'll update my old PATA-disk laptop with one that uses SATA and can take the Intel SSD's. I'll get whatever AMD 15" laptop is current then. Usually it is cheaper to get the configure-yourself low-end with the upgraded CPU and then put more dram and a better disk in yourself. -wolfggang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
