[mdlug] HP vs Toshiba

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:22:59 -0500
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net> wrote:

> Good Morning All,
>     I have a real dilema now that prices are coming down, apparently
> quite a bit. I could replace the 17" Toshiba Satellite I just got last
> year with a comparable 17" HP notebook for about 2/3 of what I paid
> last year. The user has never really liked the Toshiba and neither
> have I. I would most likely sell the Toshiba if I did buy the HP. I
> would be moving to an AMD processor from an Intel but other than that
> pretty much vanilla from what I've seen so far. Given that HP
> typically is much friendlier to Linux than Toshiba I'm thinking this
> might be a good move. Anybody have any thoughts on this? Any
> particular things I need to steer clear of?

	In case anyone's curios, I will not be selling a used Toshiba
dual core notebook this year. It came down to the fingerprint reader
I have now that I would have to give up if I switched. openSUSE 11 has
it even better integrated so that the user can swipe in from the
screensaver as well as login. That and my misadventures with rsync that
I need to clean up in /home should make the Toshiba much easier to use.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts.

Best Regards,


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