Hi Friends.

I am going to buy a Laptop for my Linux Course. I have desktops in a network already. I dont know which would be best for me?, Particular company/model and configuration.

My Linux course did not confined to any particular distro of Linux .

Please comment

I've had good luck with Sony Vaios. I've seen mention of Dell, Gateway, and Acer too. Any system you get will probably work just fine, though there may be some tweaking you have to do (like function keys for screen brightness, etc.).

I use OpenSuSE 11 on a Vaio, and everything worked right out of the box. I'd just buy a laptop, and try different distros, until you find one that best suits what you're trying to do.

Hi friend! Thanks for help

Can you please tell me what is configuration you have? or I should go for that minimum configuration so its run well.

U know! some time we prefer experiments or like to try odd things during study.

My preference is AMD not Intel. And is there any brand that came without Windows? Of course I dont want to pay for windows.

I have an older Vaio, with Intel. As I said, anything you get will probably work fine. Pick a laptop you want, and go for it. I'd get as much RAM and the biggest hard drive I could; makes things much nicer later on.

Check Google for laptops that don't come with Windows, but I doubt you'll find many.

Hi there,

I'm running a HP Pavilion DV2000 series laptop without many problems. My distro is Linux Mint.

Sound works, camera I've had working (but don;t use it). Hibernate works but a bit jumpy on start up. The wireless works out of the box.

I'm dual booting with Vista.Depending on which country you live in it is difficult to get a laptop without windows installed. When the next Mint Upgrade comes through I will be deleting my Vista: I never use it.

This laptop comes with intel dual core processor at 1.73GHz, 1G RAM and 120G HDD. It has a Nvidia graphics card which works well with compiz and emerald themes. I even get the spinning cube which is a nice party trick, if nothing else.

Regards
John

You can try to find AMD64-bit dual core ones with ~2 GB RAM... if you will be doing some programming too. I got ACER Aspire 4520 with Linpus Linux. HCL too has a few brands with Freedos.
(even those small ones@15k).

hi friends! Its great. Thanks for help.
yes i have to do little home work before any further step.


Ideas, from you guys are really helpful.

Thanks all of you.