Notebook Recommendations

[Vram]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:14 +0100, Albin Blaschka wrote:
> Behrang Saeedzadeh schrieb:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm going to buy a new notebook. I just wanted to know if somebody has
> > installed Ubuntu successfuly on a notebook (Intel or AMD inside) with
> > all the hardware (modem, WiFi, ...) recognized.
> > 
> > I prefer an AMD notebook. In where I live Toshiba, Sony, HP,
> > Compaq/HP, and Siemens notebooks are popular. I may have a hard time
> > finding a reseller selling from other brands like IBM and Dell.
> > 
> > Best Regards.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> [My first time on the list...]
> 
> Even it's maybe difficult to find a reseller for you, as far as I am 
> concerned, I would suggest an IBM Thinkpad. I have an R40, everthing 
> worked out of the box on ubuntu (but the built in modem I have not 
> tested). A friend of mine owns an R50, the same, Another friend owns an 
> older Thinkpad-modell, and even there everything worked with a little 
> bit tweaking. With debian testing it was no big problem either on my 
> R40. As a plus, there is an mailing list specially for Linux on 
> Thinkpads 
> (http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad) with 
> a friendly community, too.
> 
> Some issues may arise with acpi and software suspend, but with newer 
> kernels and a little bit more time, this problem gets smaller and 
> smaller, the developing in this field is very active...and there are 
> differences in the different modells. With some it works already, with 
> some others there are issues to solve...
> (see: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/)
> 
> And the quality of IBM Thinkpads is near to legendary ;-) and the 
> support is very good, too, and that's not only my saying, that's the 
> general feeling on the thinkpad-mailinglist mentioned above...
> 
> 
> On the ubuntu wiki there is some useful information, too: 
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops
> 


I use a IBM Thinkpad T-42..

Vram