[ILUG] Linux Laptop

[Ewan Oughton]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Lars Hecking wrote:

>
>> I decided to go for the Macbook mainly because they're reasonably
>> cheap, and known to be well supported by all major distributions,
>> meaning endless support is readily available [0]. It seems to me that
>> if you want assured, rock solid Linux support, the only other option
>> is IBM/Lenovo but the price increases dramatically.
>
> I bought a couple of T-60's recently for work, and they are impressive
> little machines. Was thinking about getting one for myself next year or
> so, as my 5+ y old no-name is showing signs of fatigue.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with the IBM/Lenovo 3000 series? For both
> 3000 and Thinkpad series, wireless won't be a problem under Linux, I guess
> (Intel/PRO), but I'm kind of hesitant wrt ATI gfx - any advice here?
>
>

The word on the grapevine is the A[MD|TI] are to release Proper 
Drivers(tm) real soon now. Dave Airlie has done some good work on ATI 
drivers as well. Don't depend on proper ATI 3D support anytime soon 
though... it's still very much a black art, IME.


Ewan





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