[TriLUG] Which laptop to buy

[Ed Hill]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:25 -0500, John Broome wrote:
> I'll toss in another vote for the T series.  Since you want a nice
> big, pretty screen check out the t43P.

Heres another happy Lenovo/IBM customer.  I love my T42p (1600x1200).


> On 12/16/05, Charles Fischer <fischer at 4pi.com> wrote:
> > Which laptop to buy, that is the question.  The requirements are built
> > in Ethernet (gigabit would be nice), IEEE-1394 (FireWire) and a large
> > (as in pixels) screen (1400x1050 minimum).  I must be able to boot both
> > Linux and some other well known OS.

Why the built-in FireWire requirement?  I'm just curious because there
seem to be a number of good/cheap cardbus IEEE-1394a cards that will
provide either the large- or small-style connectors and are Linux-
compatible.

Ed

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