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1)Lenovo R500 with ATI 3470
2)Sony VAIO VGN-FW21E also with ATI 3470
3)HP Pavilion dv5-1170ew with nVidia 9600M GT
4)Toshiba A300-1GN with ATI 3650
Do you have any problems with linux on these machines? Any not resolved isues? And of course which distro do you use on it?
Also which is the most interesting in your opinion?
Thanks for any replay about hardware!
I am running ubuntu on a r500 thinkpad and a s300 toshiba restricted drivers functioning just fine , however if you are asking for the sake of wich one to purchase I would go with the nvidia chipset as I find that they are way better supported, and certainly out perform the ati's under linux.
I'm on Fedora 10 and things are looking good so far.
Display, wireless, sound, multimedia keys out of the box.
Problems:
-no KDE 4 effects
-no function keys (brightness)
PS About Vaio: Previously I had a Mac Book Pro that was 3 times the price I paid for vaio (sold 2 yrs old mac and added very little money to buy new vaio). Well, I'll say just this: the price difference it's apparent in the build quality. I'm not saying that Vaio it's poor quality, just not as good as apple. Didn't see the premium models from Vaio (with similar prices of apple) so I can't say, maybe "up there" they are on par.
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