notebook decision?

[Trevor Nye]

I have used toshiba machines for many years. I have just installed
ubuntu on a 5 year old satellite s2450 with a belkin 802.11b wifi card.
works a treat.

Regards


On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 10:06 +0100, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Folks;
> 
> I'm in the lucky situation of being allowed to buy a new business
> notebook for my everyday work, which will be running edgy (to host my
> eclipse based JEE development environment as well as a bunch of
> administrative tools).
> 
> By now, our hardware vendor has offered two different devices yet they
> don't know at all about Linux compatibility as they usually just "sell"
> hardware (with Windows pre-installed):
> 
> 
> - First one is a MaxData Pro 8100 IWS , which would have the advantage
> that our hardware vendor could sell this as "hardware only", without
> having "Windows tax" included.
> 
> 
> - Second one is a Toshiba Tecra A8 , which would by my boss' first
> choice as people around here got used to Toshiba machines and are pretty
> happy with them.
> 
> 
> So, short question: Does anyone around here have any sort of Linux
> experiences with any of the two devices? Which of the two machines
> should I want to prefer, which one should I try staying away from?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints! :)
> Kris
>