laptops.. (was ..Re: [Ilugc] Window manager that is enemy of Mouse)

  • From: cyborg4k@xxxxxxxxx (Shakthi Kannan)
  • Date: Tue Jan 11 00:17:53 2005

Hi,

Toufeeq Hussain <topa_007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Speaking of laptops, any suggestions regarding the
same.

I heard Thinkpads are the best for Linux and
Vaio's
the worst.

You can't resist the Thinkpads, can you? 

...IBM T41, running Gentoo, rock solid!

http://www.geocities.com/shakthimaan/gentoofreebsd.html

http://tuxmobil.org

--- Sridhar R <sridharinfinity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Powerbook g4 is cool, but the cost is high and dunno
much the linux support.

YellowDogLinux:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
thinkpads are good - except for that @$^$^%& 
trackball device in the 
middle of the keyboard that they pass off as a
mouse.

Its a trackpoint, not a trackball. It is very useful
and convenient when you type fast and use it to move
the mouse pointer.

Cheers,

K Shakthi

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