[mdlug] Toshiba P205-S6347 openSUSE 10.3 VMWare Player Running Sims on XP Pro Review

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 06:16 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Peter Bart wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 	What follows were my experiences to date with this machine. I'm not
> > really sure if I would buy another Toshiba, the amount of OEM Linux
> > support is laughable. You can see it here
> > <http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/index.htm>. Getting some of the
> > stuff to work can be trying. The basic specs of the machine are as
> > follows:
> 
> That's one reason why, when I decided to buy a laptop, I went
> with HP... their reasonably long history of supporting Unix
> (HP-UX) made me feel well that I could get decent Linux support,
> and other than the typical problematic wifi, everything else
> has been reasonably well supported, even on my ancient SuSE
> 10.1 install (which I will *FINALLY* be upgrading to 10.3
> sometime this week).

	Yeah, my hindsight is really good. I was still reeling from several
encounters with HP customer disservice regarding an IPAQ. If I had to do
it over again I'll consider HP if I'm looking for a huge screen. Other
than that and my opinion only the Thinkpads are still tops.

Best Regards,

-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net