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Re: Linux on notebooks, which one to buy?



Don't you just love the unnecessary flame :)

> Why you're doing this??
>
> Yes, you can buy Dell with Linux pre-installed, but they grab the same
> amount of money as the windows version, so its better to buy it as it is,
> repartition the disk and install Linux..

My point exactly.

> Regarding to Installing Linux - come on! its not that hard! there is a web
> page with all the notebook known models that work with Linux. - all you
> have to do is:
>
> 1. Buy the notebook (IBM & Toshiba are very good ones IMHO)
> 2. Print the web page
> 3. Install your favourite Linux distribution..
>
> the installation (including tweaking all the things) shouldn't take more
> then an hour to 90 minutes.. Those pages already solved all your
problems..

Okay, say I (#1) go out and by a Sony with a external CD-Rom... I (#2) print
the webpage to discussed and, oh no! I try to install (#3) and find out
there is no support for that external CD-Rom.  Yeah, that's being
responsible.

I'm just checking things out before I buy...




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