Okay, You'll be hearing from my lawyers soon!!!
hehehehhe,


uhm... I just bought my sister a new laptop on august. It is a NEC S3000.... just try finding that on the Web...and you will not be able.... I'll give 1 dollar to who ever finds it and posts a link to the site, heheheh...imaginary dollar
It's a beautiful white tiny laptop, and it comes completely loaded with the centrino mobile pentium chip. It is probably 1/2 of my laptop.....it's smaller and thinner than the apple laptop...and it also have DVD burner, super shiny high res wide screen, and floppy disk drive which apple doesn't.
And eventhough I didn't try installing Linux on it...I suspect I may have some problems with the hardwre because it's so new, hehehe. But I just wanted to let you guys know about this laptop.

zLinuxz

Well only fault with that lt seems to be that u bought it for your sister u jack osbourne or what?

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6348488916.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search

OK Jack where's the money

woooaaaa, itsjustme, thanks for that article..... I didn't even know that!, lol, Okay....I'm swaping laptops with my sister, muahahahahhaa!!! I'll swap it while she's sleeping, heheheh, , I'll spray paint this one white....so she think it's still the same one, lol.
I need to try linux on her laptop, hehe.
Oh, and you get an imaginary dollar itsjustme, thanks

PS.
Isn't it a cool laptop though??

I running a Asus M6800n and used to have Debian on it (now running Ubuntu through Vmware)
I got all things to work except batterymeter, wireless, irda and cardreader.
It took a long time to get things working right. The Ati 9600 and ACPI was the big problems (Asus has made a bug in the bios getting ACPI to be a pain to work)

But I just try to remember that there isn't problems only harder solutions

I have two laptops a Gateway solo 1150 and a Averatec 3150, I have had both of them working well with Knoppix 3.3.1. The Averatec also works well with Slackware 9.1(I am currently installing Slackware on the Gateway.) The only thing I had to do to get things working on the Averatec was upgrade the kernel to 2.6.3, but, even the modem works. The Gateway just worked ( 'cept the modem. ) right out of the box.

Picked up a Medion thru tigerdirect. It's pretty sweet, but I have lots of problems with it, even with windows. It has a button to turn my mini pci wifi on and off. Problem is, I can't get this card to work in linux, or even winxp pro. I think the button is somehow hardwired to the card?? Oh, well. Anyways, here's what I would do differently: Not buy a desktop replacement notebook. Notebooks are either highly mobile (thin, long battery life), or desktop replacements (bulky, widescreen displays, all the options like dvd burner). I get about 2.5 hours of bat life with my laptop, and it has lots of parts that are non-standard, and it's expensive. All i really wanted was to get online with a linux notebook, but i was sucked in by the features. Next time, I'll buy an old thinkpad.

Yes, balancing the line between features and mobility is darn hard. Getting a highly mobile laptop and still maintaining a sane or tight budget (hey, hire me! ) is difficult or even impossible.

Since I didn't (and don't) plan on carrying my laptop much I went with power and features this time around, getting an HP nx9105 which had, at the price I got it, an incredible bang vs. buck ratio. I wrote a little preliminary review of it here for others that may be interested in getting one of these or the very similar Compaq R3000 series (mine is an R3000 with 64bit mode disabled and less cache - that's about the only difference).

The main, and perhaps only, annoyance I have with it is that it is heavy and it's huge. I kid you not! I have had a backpack for years, one with a padded compartment intended to house a laptop computer. Now, with all my prior laptops (both personal and ones from work) this has been perfect. From a Tecra 550CDT via some older HP through my trusty Dell Latitude CPi 300XT to my last one, a Thinkpad 600E, this backpack has been a real killer. All computers fit more or less exactly. Until the nx9105. It simply won't fit! It's too wide and too deep, so I couldn't press it in there even with force greater than advisable.

So now I'm shopping for a new backpack. Anyone up for a used (daily for more than 4 years but still fine!) The North Face Mohican? LOL

Backpacks with special computer compartments are excellent, but often very expensive. If you haven't tried one and you lug your computer around a lot you certainly should have a look at a few.


Håkan

I use an older Sony VAIO laptop (can't remember the model number), and have found that Knoppix detected everything and properly configured everything except my wireless. With a small coding hack, I was able to get it up, as the card uses the Atheros chipset, and the drivers are included with Knoppix.

Other than that, my only problems with the system have been self-induced.

i got an ibm thinkpad t23 with a 1 ghz pIII and 256 mb ram running Fedora Core 2. No problems except for finding a driver for the wireless card I had, that took a bit of work, but everything else suprisingly smooth after out of the box install, even pcmcia and acpi crap. Haven't tried to configure the dvd drive yet, not inspired to do so as of yet. Knowing linux, will probably require taking a week off from life to get it to work.

I have a Sager NP8880 and I have tried many different distros on it all with virtually no problems at all now I am running Slack10 everything worked flawless right from the start

HP 4502 (customizable option)
AMD 2500-M Barton w/ 512cache (shows up as a 2400 with latest bios, don't know why -they never made a 2400 512 cache that I know of)
ATI 320M onboard graphics (no 3D)
Hitachi 60g 4200 HD
2 x 512 ddr inferion memory, using 64m for video
samsung CDRW/DVD
builtin floppy
sucky onboard USB 1.1
conexant modem (don't use it)
firewire(don't use it)
nice 1024x768 15" display
USB 2.0 pcmcic? card
builtin broadcom 54g (nice for windows, sucks for linux)
synaptics touchpad with scroll

A really nice non-gaming laptop for the money (~$1000us in 2003)
nice display and really good 2d graphics.
fast, with decent battery life.

Suse works better than anything else on this "out of the box". I prefer Mandrake and Slackware normally, but Suse seems to have all the weird HP specific laptop drivers right on the CD, and installed by default. ACPI even works. I've used Suse Professional 9.0 and and I'm installing Suse Professional 9.1 right now.

I triple boot with Suse/XP/and the beta linux install of the day

AkBrian

Mine Sony vaio fx502 (i guess it's a 4-5 year old model)

- suse 8.1 personal
main problems were hardware issues, since i was a total novice didnt really do much about it. problems with modem/ethernet. graphics/sound OK.
suse didnt seem too compatible with my laptop

- mandrake 9
better, more friendly.
managed to install ADSL USB modem and internet worked fine
installed some messenging software too.
mandrake 9 had more friendly software (semi automatic) installation procedures (windows-lies) which surprised me.
problem with power management i think, when rebooting from linux platform laptop halts at sony logo, need to reboot manually. didnt really resolve the problem.
and i loved when it automatically configured LAN and internet. have PC and laptop on LAN via switch, and ADSL modem connected to PC. internet works nicely on laptop.

- mandrake 10
KDE, it just wont load/log in, blue screen, mouse active though. still in progress of resolving the problem. logs into root with no problems. other GUI not working either, except iceMW or something like that, but i hate it.

Im having a HP NX9000
No problems at all , hope to keep that "no problem" status for a long time on
(with Fedora/Debian/Mandrake)