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My experience with HP has been the same.  Bargain basement junk.   
IBM's have always been great for me.  I do business with IBM for  
bigger computers and they support their PC's the same as their  
Mainframes.  (documentation wise)

I would give the emperor guys a call if you can afford their work.


On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Philip Polstra wrote:

> I had an HP and the problem I ran into was the Broadcom wireless  
> chipset doesn't have Linux drivers.  You can use NDISWrapper if you  
> can get the card to turn on.  I now use a Toshiba M65 with the  
> Centrino chipset which is supported natively in the later kernels.   
> I loaded SuSe 9.3 Pro on mine and it works great other than not  
> wanting to support the higher resolution my screen offers.
>
> On 12/13/05, Tim Watts < timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm considering a laptop and I want to dual boot it w/ Linux/XP (or  
> at least
> have an XP image I can boot into a la VmWare). What models are  
> particularly
> well/poorly suited for this? Any vendors who can build this for me?  
> Any linux
> distro's better for this than others (I have SuSE 9.2 on my current  
> tower
> which I bought from Monarch; I got pretty good svc from them  
> although they
> only seemed to have 1 linux guy who was "part-time" at that)?
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