Laptop for educational purposes

Post #35,543 by Steven A S 4/16/02 12:12:18 AM Reply	Laptop for educational purposes My nephew is graduating high school this year, and moving on to college. His intention is to take a double major Computer Science and Mathematics. To prepare for this (and as a reward for making valedictorian), my sister wants to get him a laptop. She's asked what would be the best choice. With the growing popularity of Linux in colleges, I'd like to be able to suggest a laptop that is compatible in case he should need to upgrade from Windows. I know the Compaq Presario (AMD version) that I have will run Linux, but the Modem, Network card, and USB port didn't work. What is the best choice of laptops for potentially running linux. Also since he's a bit of a pianist, do any have MIDI capability? (probably not, but thought I'd ask) ~~~)-Steven---- "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..." General George S. Patton
Post #35,546 by Meerkat 4/16/02 12:44:13 AM Reply	Which one did the MSNBC Lycoris review use? It was a Compaq Somethingorother, and the review said Lycoris detected everything without drama. Of course since I'm biased I'd recommend an iBook and damn the consequences - it's already an upgrade from Windows :-) On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #35,548 by Steve Lowe 4/16/02 1:11:55 AM Reply	Re: Which one did the MSNBC Lycoris review use? My work laptop is a Compaq Armada E500. Runs Linux(I've had 4 different distros on it) just fine, with all hardware, although I did have to get the Lucent winmodem driver from linmodems.org. I think there's a game/midi port on the docking station, but I'll have to check that out tomorrow. It does have USB, PS2, Parallel, serial, and VGA ports on the back though, and built in 10/100 NIC and modem on the side. It's a pretty decent machine, actually. I'm not a Compaq fan by any means, but this has been a good, reliable machine thus far (about 18 months of service). Currently, it's SuSE 7.3/Win2K dual boot. And, I've not even RRR'd doze since the 2K install. (Came with ME, ran it for a week, wiped and installed 2K, installed XP a short time later, ran it for a month and went back to 2K). ----- Steve
Post #35,593 by SpiceWare 4/16/02 11:29:13 AM Reply	Thinkpad IBM's big behind Linux - plus the Thinkpad has 3 mouse buttons, major plus for X :-) Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #35,624 by bepatient 4/16/02 2:24:37 PM Reply	2nd vote for IBM or Compaq Armada Have worked with both and both are very good with linux. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]

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