Perfect Fedora 11/12 Notebook - Page 3

tirant · #31 21st January 2010, 10:35 PM

Thinkpads are the real workhorses for sysadmins. Specially T series.

They are not cheap, but build quality is top notch. And they carry the best keyboard you will ever find on a laptop.

Lenovo Thinkpads are the official supplier of laptops to IBM workers. Lots of people at IBM work on Linux/Java technologies, so the laptops usually have compatible hardware requirements.

dhimes · #32 9th February 2010, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by LinuxR

I have a Toshiba Satellite A505 2 duo cpu T6500 @ 2.10 GHZ with 4gb ram, 64 bit OS. It works perfect. Havent had any hardware issues other then the ones i create when i funk stuff up. Even the little touch volume controls. Anyone had any experience with running fedora on a mac?

Whoa! How? I have an A505-S6005 and it's totally borking on f12 install! What pkgs did you use for vid and wireless? Thanks!

dhimes · #33 10th February 2010, 04:14 PM

I took an F12 live disk to Best Buy yesterday, and started booting their display machines to it. ALL of the intel i* core machine struggled- I think the drivers for the onboard graphics stuff is the hangup. I bought an Asus with Centrino; it's a bit sluggish, but I needed something while the HP is in the shop.

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Well, the "a bit sluggish" turns out to be quite the understatement. The machine is totally dogged- impossible to use in this state for any serious work. Asus UL50VT-RBBBK05

guitarguy83 · #34 11th February 2010, 01:58 AM

just remember if you do get a dell installing another operating system on it other than what it came with will void your warranty. i asked about fedora and they said yes it would void it even as a dual boot. im very happy with my inspiron 1545 and my studio 1555. except for this damn squeak everytime i hit the spacebar. the inspiron ran fedora 12 no problem.

dhimes · #35 11th February 2010, 03:19 AM

The Asus is a nifty machine. It has two graphics chips: an on-board Intel and an nvidia. This allows you to do low-res work with a low battery drain, but switch into hi graphics mode if needed. That is, you can do that on Windows. In F12 I am working on how to tell it which chip to use and use the required driver. I suspect the sluggishness was from using the nvidia driver with the intel chip- but I'm not sure how to tell which chip it's using. If I can get THAT trick working, this'll be nice.