Re: [Sheflug] laptops (was Re: linuxcare ?)

[matt fairtlough <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Mears wrote:


> I have two IBM laptops. An old (ish) Thinkpad 600 and a new A21, both machines have run SUSE 7.2 and have
> just been upgraded to SuSE 7.3. I have found that the IBM machines are very stable (nothing has crashed yet)
> and the installs on them was fairly painless, sound , IRDA and USB works on both machines :-)
> 
> The only thing that I would say is that both laptops have had extra memory installed. The TP600 has 192Mb RAM 
> and the A21 has 256Mb. 


I'm getting an IBM Thinkpad a22p with a memory upgrade to 512Mb.  A 
colleague of mine has just installed SuSE 7.2 on his with some minor 
tweaks (getting the display to work) and it seems fine (and looks great).

 
> IBM machines are not that cheap but I my personal opinion of them is that they are very good.

> Sorry if I sound like an advert for IBM (I didn't mean to) 


Well I don't mind, especially as I'm getting one :-)  Mind you, I should be wary of IBM because my disk crash 

(which I am still recovering from) was on the now infamous IBM Deskstar 75GXP disk.  For the one or two of you on this list

not aware of this, there is a class action suit against IBM going on in 
the States over the drive, which is claimed to be
inherently unreliable.  The shop took it in but wouldn't return it to 
IBM; it has been "repaired" using a software utility.  I now
confidently expect further crashes and am trying to join the class 
action suit.


> Like Richard says, if you need a hand let us know.


Thanks a lot.  I'm planning to install SuSE 7.3.  Hope it is more 
painless than some of the experiences I've had with installing Linux. 
But I'm almost certain to need help.


Matt.

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