Linux Laptop Recommendations for 2002?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 5, 2002 @12:45PM from the a-perennial-question dept.

ocasek asks: "I have been looking into buying a laptop again and one of the requirements I have is that it will be able to run Linux with all features turned on (i.e. suspend, APM, etc.). I used to own a Dell Inspiron 8000 that I had Mandrake 8.0 configured and running on, and aside from the wonderful BIOS hooks for PCMCIA that never worked completely, it was a good laptop. My question to the /. Community is, in your opinion, what is the best laptop out there to run Linux? I would be interested to hear what OS's you are running on what brand of laptop."

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portable unix? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-05 17:44 · Score: 1, Insightful

Why muck around with anything else? OSX gives you IE, office, and tcsh, all running at the same time.

You can be all political if you like, but the simple fact is that IE and office are the best applications in their class. So, while you think you're appealing to a higher power, I'm quitely getting work done without hassle.

Have it your way.