[NBLUG/talk] OT: small notebooks

[Cameron Tully-Smith]

Thanks, everyone.

I'm leaning towards the Fujitsu P5020D.

Kyle Rankin said:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:30:34PM -0800, Steve Smith wrote:
>> I saw a nice little Acer a few days ago.  It wasn't as small
>> as the Vaio T1A or the Fujitsu but it did look like a 12
>> inch screen.
>>
>> I was recently looking at laptops and wanted a small one.  I
>> bought an Avantec and ended up taking it back because the
>> keyboard had the backspace undersied and in a strange place
>> and the function and control keys were reversed.  Make sure
>> the keyboard works for you!
>>
>> If you're really interested in the Fujitsu, make sure you
>> check out http://www.greenfly.org.  One of the guys in the
>> group has a fujitsu and this is his site.  It's one of the
>> nicest "how to linux laptop" sites I've seen.  I'd lean
>> towards the fujitsu just because of this site.
>>
>> I have a big old clunky hp with a 15 inch screen by the way,
>> and I'm happy enough with it.  I put SuSE 9 on it without a
>> hitch and so far everything has worked.
>>
>> Steve S.
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Cameron Tully-Smith wrote:
>>
>> > All,
>> >
>> > I'm looking for a small system, such as a Sony Vaio or Fujitsu
>> LifeBook. Are there any systems other than these two that I should
>> look at?
>> >
>> > Are there preferences either way re: HDD speed, etc.?
>> >
>> > I'm looking to do some all-around computing (some movies, some
>> programming, some spreadsheet schoolwork, etc.).
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Cameron
>> > --
>> > lpstudy at sonic.net
>
> Thanks for the kind words :)
>
> Unfortunately, they no longer sell the P2110 that I feature on my site.
> They don't even sell its successor, the P2120 anymore (and there were
> substantial differences between the two, namely ACPI-only support in the
> latter, that made it more difficult to get everything running).
>
> That having been said, Fujitsu still does offer their P5000 series on
> their website (and http://laptopsinc.com still sells it as well).
> Unfortunately, as far as I know, the current XFree86 server does not
> completely support the intel video card in that laptop, so that it can't
> show the full resolution of the screen (1280x768 I believe).  This could
> change at any time, of course, like most hardware support in Linux, so
> keep an eye on the fujitsu P series forum on http://leog.net for any
> breaking news on the subject.
>
> If a built-in CDROM isn't important to you, there's an even smaller
> Fujitsu Lifebook P series, the P1000 that has a 8" touchscreen (P2000
> and P5000 have a 10.2" screen).  I haven't seen it personally, but I've
> heard reports of the touchscreen working under Linux.
>
> If you have an eye on a Vaio the first thing I would do is scour the web
> and confirm just how much support you will have under Linux.  Some Vaios
> you can get just about everything working, others you really have to
> work at it (one thing you might do is check out
> http://www.emperorlinux.com/ and see which ones they have been able to
> get working).
>
> While I haven't seen one up close, I've heard some buzz about the
> Panasonic Toughbook series.  Two of the smaller ones are here:
> http://www.panasonic.com/computer/toughbook/learn_more_tbw2.asp
> http://www.panasonic.com/computer/toughbook/learn_more_tbr1.asp
>
> If you are willing to go to a 12" screen, some people really like the
> IBM Thinkpad X series.  I personally don't like some of the expansion
> options, but others do.  For that matter a Powerbook might work out well
> once you get to that size.
>
> If money isn't an object, try http://www.dynamism.com for a lot of nice
> tiny Japanese import laptops.
>
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