maxgravitt Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Hi, I'm in the market for a laptop that I would like to run solely Mandrake 10. I have typically bought computers from Dell in the past, but I had a problem with my current Dell and Linux where the SDLive! card was not supported. Plus, I'm not sure if I can buy a Dell with no OS preinstalled. I am looking for a new laptop, and not one from a Mom-and-pop type place that would use cheap parts (I've had a bad experience in the past with that). Any recommendations on where to find a quality laptop for Mandrake 10? thanks! [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 You might want to look at an IBM T41... everyone raves about them with Linux. Also, take a Mandrake Move, or PCLOS live CD to your neighborhood computer store and try to boot to a cd and see what happens. :P Knoppix is good too, but might not catch the Mandrake issues on HW detection. I am running an Acer TM 803Lci and it took some tweaking, but I'm pretty happy. Have not had time to get my wireless going, but it is doable according to others. Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSS Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 Try to find something with a vid card other than ATI. ATI cards have very little support under Linux. Hi, I'm in the market for a laptop that I would like to run solely Mandrake 10. I have typically bought computers from Dell in the past, but I had a problem with my current Dell and Linux where the SDLive! card was not supported. Plus, I'm not sure if I can buy a Dell with no OS preinstalled. I am looking for a new laptop, and not one from a Mom-and-pop type place that would use cheap parts (I've had a bad experience in the past with that). Any recommendations on where to find a quality laptop for Mandrake 10? thanks! [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilbert Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 The EliteGroup laptop are very cheap in Taiwan because it comes without Windows XP. I bought http://www.ecsusa.com/products/g733.html ECS-G733 on Feburary. It worked well for Mandrake 10. Every device driver was detected during installation. You can buy a CNet CNWLC-811 pcmcia wireless card for wireless functionality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Hello, I have an HP at home and it runs great just the problem that I have with the ATI video cards. But if you can get a video card that is nVidia ( which I'm pretty sure that HP has them ) it will be to your advantage, I think just about every HP hardware supports Linux and on top of that they are coming out with a Linux OS laptop soon. Also Acer I heard has really good laptops. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 One that I am considering is the HP ZD7000 has the 128MHz FX Go5700 Nvidia card so you know your 3d experince will be good, plus as a whole the laptop appears to be well supported in the Linux world www.zd7000forums.com You'll see a "LINUX" section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 You might also look at this thread, I have been looking a lot of info up http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=17436 If you don't care about gaming and 3d then a lot of these are really nice. My trouble is that most of the laptops out right now come with ATI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSS Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 The HP ZV5000Z also comes with Nvidea and is priced a little lower if your on a budget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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