linux laptop

[triple_pickle]

does anybody have any experience with a linux laptop?  my hp pavilion with windows vista just died on me for a second time - the first time the motherboard died - just three months after i had bought it - and i think it happened again   what a piece of shit, i swear i will never buy hp again   anyway, i run many simulations so need a lot of ram and of course wireless, which linux has trouble with, so i heard.

[benz]

does anybody have any experience with a linux laptop?  my hp pavilion with windows vista just died on me for a second time - the first time the motherboard died - just three months after i had bought it - and i think it happened again   what a piece of shit, i swear i will never buy hp again   anyway, i run many simulations so need a lot of ram and of course wireless, which linux has trouble with, so i heard.

Why do you think lunix will help your problem when you just said its a hardware problem? Also, you can have both, actually, more than that, just get 4gb ram and vmware

You dont need to start ww3

[triple_pickle]

last time i had to reactivate vista by entering an authentication code - also linux is better suited for scientific computations so it is a perfect time to take the plunge.  btw, i have a dual install with ubuntu on another partition just never use it.

[benz]

last time i had to reactivate vista by entering an authentication code - also linux is better suited for scientific computations so it is a perfect time to take the plunge.  btw, i have a dual install with ubuntu on another partition just never use it.

you can do the simulations, iterations and any shit you want under vista. and you dont really believe the hype that the world's scientific stuff relays on lunix lol

[grab an umbrella]

last time i had to reactivate vista by entering an authentication code - also linux is better suited for scientific computations so it is a perfect time to take the plunge.  btw, i have a dual install with ubuntu on another partition just never use it.

Run Ubuntu man.  I've been dual booting on my computer with xp and I dont even use windows anymore.

[Captain Equipoise]

Go for one of the bigger distro's, Debian, Redhat, Mandrake...

I run Debian on one of my laptops, and on my other laptops I used Live Linux (boots off CD)

Knoppix is a really good live cd...

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

[smoothasf]

i have a linux based laptop

PRO's
fast as hell boots up in seconds
smooth no pop ups
no viruses
standard software that comes with o/s is very versitile and runs faster

Cons
software is a complete bitch to install and limited e.g if you buy a camera the driver for it probably wont work the same with sat navs/mp3 players ect.