Good Laptops for Linux???

niteanddayhost · Post #1 (**permalink**) 03-02-2005, 02:58 PM

I was wondering if anyone has one of the new Gateway 7405GX laptops. I am looking for a Laptop with power (AMD64, 512MB memory, 60+GB), and was wondering what people have had in the way of success and failure for these new Widescreen laptops and Linux.

Equinox · Post #2 (**permalink**) 03-03-2005, 02:56 AM

I bought an AJP 5600D when I was in Europe last year and the machine has worked wonders with RH9 and similar Distros. They are a UK based company and their site is www.ajp.co.uk
~Equinox

u2mike · Post #3 (**permalink**) 03-03-2005, 03:17 AM

Most new distro's have exellent support for laptops and sholdn't have any issues. Widescreen will work find as well as its simply a matter of changing your xservers resolution.

niteanddayhost · Post #4 (**permalink**) 03-04-2005, 03:46 PM

I really haven't look into widescreen support in X.org, but X11 had driver problems. But if they fixed it, that is really GOOD

, also the toshiba satalites were a pain to get linux on from what I heard.

Dragonlordgod · Post #5 (**permalink**) 03-04-2005, 08:34 PM

I'm a dell fan, because I got one for free....so may you should get a dell laptop for it. I think it's performance is great.

Equinox · Post #6 (**permalink**) 03-05-2005, 12:45 AM

Dells have given me great reliability. I installed over 140 Desktop/Laptops a few years ago for a huge client of mine and the worst I've had was ONE hard disk faliure. Very impressed. Great reliability!
~Equinox

hostburst · Post #7 (**permalink**) 04-05-2005, 05:30 AM

Only thing you would have to worry about with linux and laptops is the driver issue, but linux should support all the new hardware for laptops so its no problem.

I second Dell laptops, we have one here and it works great.

- Eddy

kris1351 · Post #8 (**permalink**) 04-14-2005, 01:11 PM

HP/Compaq laptops work quite well with Fedora. You could save yourself the trouble and just buy a Mac. It runs BSD as its backbone and has a great GUI. I bought a PowerBook and it runs great for everything I need. Very light also so easy to travel with.

hostburst · Post #9 (**permalink**) 04-22-2005, 08:06 PM

ive been looking into a cheap Mac laptop my self, or a mac mini which is small enough.

- eddy

commit1anthony · Post #10 (**permalink**) 09-02-2005, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Dragonlordgod

I'm a dell fan, because I got one for free....so may you should get a dell laptop for it. I think it's performance is great.

Dell is great, I have FreeBSD installed on one of ours and it runs so smoothe.

HeadNucleon · Post #11 (**permalink**) 02-04-2006, 02:24 PM

I use a dell but the wireless card does not work. I am sure there is a driver for it somewhere out there

Artashes · Post #12 (**permalink**) 02-04-2006, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by HeadNucleon

I use a dell but the wireless card does not work. I am sure there is a driver for it somewhere out there

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