[mdlug] HP vs Toshiba

[Aaron Kulkis]

Peter Bart wrote:
> 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.

Why would you have to give up having a fingerprint reader?
Fingerprint readers are in the $20 - $30 range at Microcenter.

> 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,