Hi Michael,
I use a Dell Inspiron 8100 and I really like it. I
have a few beefs with it like the flimsy case and the
fact that it can fry eggs under heavy load but overall
it's pretty slick. I ordered mine with an ATI Mobility
Radeon 7500. It works pretty good in X. I am able to
get the supported resolutions but I can't get full
screen video with apps like ogle and mplayer (anybody
else have this problem?). The input devices (track
stick, track pad) work fine in X. The internal Mini
PCI ethernet card and the sound card work great too.
The new "desktop replacement" model is the Inspiron
8200. It is very similar to mine but comes with a P4
instead of a PIII and the max amount of ram is 1024MB
instead of 512MB. Looks like the only available video
cards for the 8200 are the GeForce2 Go and Geforce4
440
Go. I'm not sure how well supported these are though. 

Even though I like my Dell laptop. I would probably
buy a Titanium Powerbook if I could do it over again.


--- "Michael  J. Schweppe" <michael@schweppe.org>
wrote:
> I want to get a notebook that will have Linux as the
> sole OS.  Can you
> fine folks share with me your experiences and
> recommendations as which
> brand[s] to consider?
> 
> Specifically I'd like to know if there are any
> special challenges with
> the recognition of the built in ethernet and
> pointing device [eraser
> head or touch].
> 
> I'll most likely go with RH since that is what I
> have the most
> experience with--although I understand true
> 'enthusiasts' use Debian
> :-)  I understand people are quiet passionate about
> the distro they
> use, but I would consider straying from Red Hat if
> another distro
> provided a better notebook optimization.
> 
> My goal is to learn Linux well.  I don't need the
> fine polish GUI of
> RH, but then again I do not want to operate solely
> in a CL environment
> all the time either.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
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