[P1] Which PC based laptop is comparable to the iBook ??

[Michael Flournoy]

My wife uses an IBM Thinkpad. It has been trouble free. It is a very 
nicely designed machine, it seems like a shame that such a nice piece 
of equipment has to run such a kludge as Windows.

When we put a new hard-drive in her Gateway I set up a Linux partition 
as a fail-safe in case Windows craps out. I installed the latest 
version of Mandrake and was very impressed with how nice it looked and 
worked. BTW, Mandrake went straight on the internet with NO setup at 
all, and correctly detected the monitor and video card, all things that 
Windows failed to do. AND you can use Konquerer to surf the web.
             Mike
On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 08:42 PM, Richard McKay wrote:

> Peter,
>
> Variety being the spice of life and all...
>
> If you want decent design and conception as well as a software package 
> that
> works fairly well together then I would suggest a Sony...decent size
> selection, firewire almost always included and bluetooth in some of the
> newer models...I think that they had a 10.4" model recently that was 
> nice if
> you had to go to the dark side...the price is higher than for other
> notebooks but I think it is worth it compared to the rest of the 
> selection.
> My wife uses a sony vaio and it is pretty good for a doze 
> machine...one last
> criteria that may help...try to find a laptop that you can install 
> Linux on
> and still use everything...i.e. modem, sound, sleep, etc...This may 
> help
> considerably when you need/want to try something that win can't 
> do...and
> besides open source is the future...the foundations of the monopoly are
> starting to crack...Not sure about the sony and linux but a search on 
> the
> web should let you know what laptops work...
>
> slightly OT:
>
> May be that I'm slow but has anyone else noticed that if you hold down 
> the
> back button for a sec or two in safari that it brings up a list of 
> recent
> pages you visited, nice to have on the iBook so that there is less 
> touchpad
> movement or clicking needed...
>
>
>
>
> Peter Nacken wrote the following:
>
>> But I need at least 3 screens around me and one has to be a PC ..
>
>
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