Linux Laptop Recommendations for 2002?

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."

Comments

iBook

[nadie]

Debian Woody on an iBook 500. Everything works, once I compiled a kernel from Ben H.

TiBook + Yellow Dog

[ubiquitin]

Wow is this bitch fast, I was totally blown away. Before installing YDL (LinuxPPC unfortunately hasn't been updated as recently or often as Yellow Dog) I was used to the double-buffer-double-slowness of OSX. With default, non-tweaked XFree86 config files, this thing absolutely flies, feels faster than the 1.2ghz Athlon workstation running linux I use at work.

Neat hardware stuff? USBview works as advertised, wireless networking took 30 minutes to setup, and firewire is the only main peripheral without robust support, something you're not going to find on any platform.

Price? TiBook is 400 mghz budget special (you can find them for $1600 these days)overclocked to 500mghz.

The main downside is that all of the RPMs out there are x86. Upside is that rpmfind.net has plenty of YellowDog rpms and Ximian's Red Carpet works great with it. If you want details on my setup, email editor@macgimp.org

Ibook 600MHZ

[Noodlenose]

I would go for a Ibook running YDL. You not only have the streetcred and geekiness of Linux, but you also have the pulling power and theadoration that comes with an Apple Computer.

Dirk