Subject: Re: Linux laptops
From: Jonathan Singer (jsinger@genome.wi.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 14:25:44 MST
It depends what you want and what you realize you're getting into. I'm really happy with my TiBook and YDL but I'm not a big multimedia user and I was prepared for a lot of headaches. (Althoughthe headaches exceeded my expectations -- Yellow Dog people: if Apple releases new revisions for models that you claim are supported, please update your site to reflect that!)
The Slashdot guy wanted a laptop that would be 100% supported out of the box. A Radeon TiBook isn't the answer for him, although it is for many of us.
>Just in case anyone didn't see this, there was an Ask Slashdot question
>about what laptop to get if'n you're wanting to run linux. [Ti|Ice]Book +
>YDl was one of the most favored combonations. Go YDL! I use YDL on my
>Pismo and have actually started using it in preference to my Dell 420 at
>home and Sawtooth at work.
>
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/06/0033236
>
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