hi ppl, This is magesh, from chennai i have planned to buy a laptop... i opt for hp or compaq but now iam little confused on which system would be linux favourable because many of friends were disappointing, of the non-availability of the drivers and many other problems as far as the laptops are concerned so i need feedbacks from people who use hp or compaq notebooks and iam also confused on which one to go for either hp or compaq... help me with this friends

>Use the Fedora live cd and boot once and check if everything works >before buying the laptop.

>Have you considered a Lenovo ThinkPad (the T or R series) ?

>>i have no idea about this lenovo.... if you can provide me some information about your >>experience with it. how about the services and linux compatability? >>is it possible for me to get one under my budget( with 320gb hd, 3gb ram) Magesh, While I have had no experience with support (actually nothing broke, although I'm a heavy user). I have a t40 and an office given t60. Both work perfectly with almost every flavour of linux (fedora 9-10, Ubuntu 8.04-8.10). The price range for thinkpad may not fit your budget though. The entry level R Series starts from 43k (with 160GB HDD and very little RAM). I suppose it's best you go with HP (any other members want to share their linux experience with HP?) http://shopap.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/inweb/LenovoPortal/en_I... Regards, Ritesh On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:01 PM, magesh <kkmageshcse(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Thankyou guys for the feedbacks > > here is some additional info: > iam buying a laptop for my development purpose, i would be doing most web > developments and some system developments also (playing with kernel) > > i look for a laptop which does not exceed my budget of 45k > and according to my knowledge hp services are the best so i chose it > > >>Use the Fedora live cd and boot once and check if everything works > >>before buying the laptop. > > well this is also nice idea > other than this, i thought of going for the nvidea graphics (thought it > would be also supported by fedora) > has anybody been successful in using the nvidea gforce graphics??? > > >>Have you considered a Lenovo ThinkPad (the T or R series) ? > > i have no idea about this lenovo.... if you can provide me some > information > about your experience with it. how about the services and linux > compatability? > is it possible for me to get one under my budget( with 320gb hd, 3gb ram) > > any other things which needs to be considered while getting a laptop??? > > thankyou all. > > > > -- > magesh > Life is "just tryin out things to see if they work" > > http://magesh.geexhq.com/ > http://twitter.com/mageshcse > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-india mailing list > Fedora-india(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india > -- Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

I would suggest that whatever laptop you take, just make sure that it does not have the following: 1. a Broadcom wireless card. 2. ATI graphics card These cause me a lot of problems in my HP Compaq 6515b.