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Dell and IBM do not manufacturer their notebooks either. There was a very
interesting article in PC Computing or Family PC (Both Ziff Davis
Publications) which gave you VERY specific information about which
manufacturers notebooks came from what source (at one point in time Dell was
buying from a Taiwanese company named Quanta).
The article specicifially cited notebooks from Dell, CTX and another company
which slips my mind which were EXACT clones of each other. The way that you
determine this is on the bottom, there is a tag that has the serial number as
well as some other numbers, those other numbers are the key.
For example, my wife has an IBM 560X. On the tag on the bottom of the box
there is a number that lists the machine as a TYPE 2640. This number
identifies the model number of the third party manufacturer for that
particular machine for IBM.
BTW, I could not find the article on the ZD website. My guess is that they
really cheesed off people who pay their bills...
Bob
Jason Costomiris wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:17:25PM -0500, Chuck Peters wrote:
> :
> : Anyone know a good local laptop vendor who supports Linux?
>
> Dell & IBM are the only ones, at least that are manufacturers.
>
> Other vendors will resell NEC, Sony, and others.
>
> : Or does anyone have recommendations where or what to get?
>
> I've got an old Toshiba Tecra 730CDT. Pentium-150, 80 MB RAM. Not
> the fastest thing on earth, but I get X at 1024x768x16bpp, the internal
> modem works, and the PCMCIA slots do CardBus just fine (and I've got
> the 3CCFE575BT to prove it..).
>
> Dell has lots of nice laptops that, even though the come w/Windoze, run
> Linux just fine && dandy. At my last job, I had a Latitude CPi, which was
> a P-II 366, w/128 MB RAM and a NeoMagic chipset. I had a spare drive,
> and it ran Linux just fine.
>
> As for the digital camera stuff, the USB stuff in 2.3 seems to support the
> Kodak USB digital cams. I'd probably get one of those PCMCIA cards that
> has the SmartMedia reader. It shows up (IIRC) as a PCMCIA IDE device.
> Mount-n-go.
>
> I tend to stay away from Compaq. They do so much funky stuff to their
> hardware that they have to provide restore CDs, since if you installed
> plain vanilla OS distributions on their hardware, you wouldn't have a
> prayer of getting it all working again.
>
> HP's got some nice books out there too. Stay away from newer Toshibas
> (Winmodems!)...
>
> --
> Jason Costomiris <><
> Technologist, cryptogeek, human.
> jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
>
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