Laptop recommendations

[dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com (Duane Morin)]

I can't say I'm thrilled with my Dell Inspiron 5150.  I'm no guru when it 
comes to the adminny stuff (as my questions to this list will attest), but 
I have never gotten acceptable resolution on the following:
	- ACPI versus APM.  I get hangs when I try using ACPI.  Shuold I 
be able to make this thing sleep or not?
	- Sound.  Although it appears to work I will often and 
unpredictably get "device or resource busy", even when I have freshly 
booted the machine and run no new apps
	- heat.  The thing runs amazingly hot, to the point where I wonder 
if my fans are working properly (although they are, I can hear them).
	- video.  Although I have the nvidia driver and it works, I dont 
love having to recompile and install it everytime I change kernels :).
	- lockups.  Originally I had some lockups when I ended up 
attributing to poorly seated memory.  Then, it was ACPI relatead things.  
Lately I have had 2 spontaneous lockups after switching from my PCMCIA 
wireless card to the USB. 

Not to mention things like the keyboard layout is horrendous.  Who puts ~ 
way in the upper *right* corner among F12, Pause, and what appears to be a 
windows menu key??

Duane

 On 
Fri, 14 May 2004, David Kramer wrote:

> So I want to buy a high-end laptop (probably below $2,000).  I know there's a 
> few sites that cover linux on laptops, but they often contain coflicting 
> information and views.  I would rather solicit information from people I 
> know.  Features and speed are more important than size or battery life.
> 
> Has anyone bought a laptop and put Linux on it recently?
> 
> 
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