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I want to buy a fairly powerful laptop. Looking at Inspiron 9100 and HP zx5000, but Thinkpads are *REAL NICE*. I think the best model for me is the R51, because I don't care about weight, and I'm willing to give up some processing power (over the Dell and the HP) for a nice screen and built-like-an-SUV tough. I haven't found any info on the R51 and Linux though. All of the recent Thinkpads seem to be very compatible (except maybe for suspend mode, but that's a big problem with Linux on most laptops), and for the most part they all use the same level of components, and Centrino is fully supported now. I have very high hopes, but would love to hear from someone who has done it. BTW, I expect to use a distro with 2.6 kernel, like SuSE 9.1 or Fedora Core 2 (if I start hearing better things about dual booting with Windows) Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "The only problem with doing it right the first time is DK KD that nobody appreciates how difficult it was" DDDD - Anonymous
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