Sure, most likely you'd have to go with the same motherboard or from the manfacturer as I'm sure only particular boards fit in the case, etc that you have. Wouldn't really be an upgrade, more like a replacement most likely unless your good at soldering and customizing a different board in place.

thanks

I have been using the Sharp AV18P for months. I dual boot between WinXP and RedHat 9. The only limitations I have found are

1. Linux runs hotter. The fan runs constantly
2. The built in wireless does not work.

Both of these are secondary to the way I use the laptop, so I have not spent time trying to fix them. I only wish it had a floppy drive. I never knew how much I would miss one until it is gone.

IGNORANCE'D

Red Hat hasn't abandoned anything. They've placed their desktop efforts into the hands of the community, providing a place and way for Fedora Core to be distributed and advanced.

I'm running Fedora Core 1 on my Fujitsu Lifebook B-2175.

Yup I have a Dell running SuSE 9.0 and it runs great no problem. Its an Inspiron 8100 with a Nvidia Geforce2 Go video card.


You can in fact run Linux on the Sony notebooks too. However more work is involved. XFree86 doesn't support the device drivers for their video. However there are some 3rd party companies that sell XWindows systems with their own device drivers that will in fact work. But you'll have to pay money for them. The only reason I would even think of bothering to do this is Sony does have some nice mini notebooks. But since you are not looking at the mini notebook I would just go with a Dell.

IBM always the best!!!

In the end I got myself T40, and I'm very happy with it.

Good choice!

I got the T41 yesterday as well, now need a lot of time to get it to multiboot with Red Hat 9 and Windoze XP.

pioter,

I've got a Dell 600m running slackware 9.1, and everythings works. Even the integrated Intel Pro/2100 wireless.

On mine everything works pretty well also, including the speedstep, acpi, and suspend. For some reason thou, linux is more power hungry than windoze. I configured syslog so it will log everything to tty6, added noatime and commit=999 to fstab, and it still eats more battery than windoze. dawizman, how is your power consumption on linux? (oh btw I'm running slack 9.1 with 2.6.5 kernel)

Actually, In XP and slackware, time on battery is very compareable. In Win XP with wireless enables and screen set to dimmest and with the modular battery installed, I get about 6 and a half hours. In slack with the same settings, I reach pretty much the same. I have custom CPU throttling setup though so my CPU runs at 600mhz constantly. If I need it higher, I step it up but 600mhz is good enough for school work and other things like that.

Maybe its the battery meter in gkrellm, but the rate at which the battery is draining is significantly higher. I'll reconfigure the cpufreqd to constantly run on 600MHz instead of dynamically adjusting the CPU freq to the load on the CPU. Doesn't windows do it also (dynamically adjust the cpu freq to the load)?

i got a T41 running tri-boot on debian (woody), red hat 9 and windoze. on linux side, all work except for modem, wireless and irda (not tested yet)... it is running great!

Yes, windows does do it dynamically, but in both Windows and Slackware, I have found ways to set it to run at the lowest possible frequency (600mhz) and running at that clock speed works just great for my uses with the laptop. When I plug it in, it automatically clocks up to 1.4Ghz and that is great too. When I need a higher clockspeed on battery to run something, or compile something faster, I bump it up a few performance states. I personally like having full control over the clockspeed, and not having windows/linux dynamically adjust it.

the reason for a notebook running hot is that you do not have apci enabled.

with respect to battery life, I actually find gkrellm far more accurate than kde's batter monitor. When kde monitor hit zero, gkrellm said there was 17% left which equated to approx 25 mins....