laptop..

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ed Miner wrote:

> hi.
> 
> i am in the market for a laptop, and would like to run linux as my
> primary system on the laptop alongside windows 98. can anyone recommend
> a laptop for which i will not have a lot of problems trying to get the
> audio/cdrom/dvd to work? i am currently thinking about sony vaio's
> however, i would like to hear back whether people have gotten linux to
> work on those? otherwise what systems do you recommend? dell/compaq/ibm?

I have a Vaio C1X which works great, and I've seen lots of people with the
larger Vaios, including Linus. I believe Linus has one of the 505's.

There's a web page that gives lots of information about putting Linux onto
various laptops, at

    http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/

This includes links to pages for specific laptops, including many about
the various Vaio models.

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