Re: GLUG: Notebooks

[Paul Furber <paulf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does anyone have any advice on a good, internationally available laptop to
> run Linux on? 

Personal experience of Dells - work fine, everything is supported and
easy to install. I've heard Gateway machines (which are now locally
available for a very good price) are also a good bet.

> 2. Sony won't honour hardware warranties with Linux on the machine. I was
> told this weekend when the keyboard failed (keyboard on the 'book had keys
> that didn't work, external keyboard worked fine - notebook 14 days old at
> this time) that because I had loaded Linux on the machine, they could not
> honour the warranty.

Great stuff. Remind me not to ever buy Sony hardware in the future -
unless someone with more knowledge of
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/keyboard.c can show exactly where the damage
could have been inflicted :)

Paul.
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