Well, I know what you mean about laptops being hard to find. I have seen in Computer Shopper once and a while IBM laptops that come with Red Hat preinstalled rather than Windows. You might want to glance through one of those, and just see if they have any more iin there. The Linux laptops are just not really being pushed by the mainstream computer resellers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Moore" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blindtech at topica.com> Cc: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:21 PM Subject: laptops > Greetings all. Okay, finally am breaking down and hunting for a laptop > computer . I want to use this machine to boot both linux and windows. I > suspect windows will have no real problems since I will probably get a > machine with it loaded whether or not I want their windows. However, I have > had bad experiences with other machines in the past which required lots of > drivers and would only work with the OF.a.m version of windows from that > particular laptop company. would like to avoid this if at all possible > since I will probably nuke the disk as the first thing and put a standard > version of win98 se and create a Linux partition running slackware or redhat > or something like that. would like as little strange hardware as possible. > I really like like the keyboards on the thinkpad computers but they are > pretty costly and i.b.m sometimes has strange hardware configurations at > least on the desktop machines I have worked with. Would be most interested > in people's experience with notebook computers. I don't mind spending a > little more money for a good machine but really want to avoid proprietary > software and sound video chips etc. any thoughts viaprivate mail would be > much appreciated. > > thanks. Brian. > > home e-mail: admin at bmoore.yi.org > work e-mail: bmoore at frontiercomputing.on.ca > msn messenger brianrm at home.com > > tel (416) 462-0294. > > thanks. Brian. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
