[techtalk] Need Notebook reccomendation

[Davida Schiff]

Thanks to all who responded. I will probably go with the Dell 7500 with Red
Hat pre-installed. This way I am sure everything will be Tier 1 and problem
free.

Davida
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Phillips" <ianp at tibco.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 11:01 AM
Subject: RE: [techtalk] Need Notebook reccomendation


> Well, I am obliged to say "buy a Dell".  But actually, we've started
configuring
> a couple of our notebooks with Redhat, so if you're wanting a notebook on
linux

I'd say go for a Dell as well, but beware of the models with the 256ZX
graphics chipsets, you'll need to buy a comercial Xserver for ~£100 to get
them to work (or somebody please tell me where I wen't wrong!).

But apart from that minor caveat the CPi series are great. I haven't played
with the Inspiron's so I couldn't say, but being aimed at home users moer I
guess they'd be more likely to have "cutting-edge" chipsets (read: X
problems ;-)

Yours,
Ian.

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