[OLPC-Chicago] OLPC-Chicago Digest, Vol 1, Issue 12

David Dahl david at ddahl.com
Thu May 31 12:04:39 EDT 2007


I just bought a Lenovo (IBM) 3000 V100 for use with Ubuntu. It just
works. I tried my best at ubuntu on a MacBook, which failed miserably.
I paid 750.00 after rebates at lenovo.com

If you close the screen it suspends, when you open it it wakes. It all
just works. The "Thinkpad" line is more heartily built, but also a lot
more expensive.

The only thing that doesn't *quite* work right is the wireless does
not always come back up from sleep, but it takes 5 seconds to
re-connect manually.

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>    1. Comfortable portable development machine (DeanG)
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>    3. Re: Comfortable portable development machine (Ian Bicking)
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> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:17:50 -0500
> From: DeanG <goodmansond at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OLPC-Chicago] Comfortable portable development machine
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> My linux boxes are all desktops and I realized that in considering a
> laptop for this kind of development,
> I 'm unaware of the sweet spot for the specs on a good laptop/portable
> for this kind of development.
>
> Would you trust a $600 14/15''  (1200x800) laptop with 1gig (or 512?)
> of RAM, or suggest not spending less than $1000?  Would you rather lug
> an iMac or LCD and mini?
>
> Which brands are the least headache (proprietary drivers alright,
> rebuilding the kernel is pushing it.)  for getting a comfortable (not
> necessarily ideal) Linux development box?
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:40:09 -0500
> From: "Atul Varma" <varmaa at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] Comfortable portable development machine
> To: DeanG <goodmansond at gmail.com>
> Cc: olpc-chicago at laptop.org
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> When it comes to laptops, Linux can be a big hassle due to the
> variance in APM/ACPI implementations.  I believe that Ian Bicking once
> told me that he uses Windows on his laptop as a sort of "hardware
> abstraction layer": Windows plays nicely with his laptop's power
> management, allowing him to suspend and hibernate very easily, and he
> simply runs VMWare with a Linux VM image inside it to do all his
> actual work.  The fact that the Linux VM can be easily transported,
> backed-up, etc. is an added bonus.  (If you're reading this, Ian,
> please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> - Atul
>
> On 5/30/07, DeanG <goodmansond at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My linux boxes are all desktops and I realized that in considering a
> > laptop for this kind of development,
> > I 'm unaware of the sweet spot for the specs on a good laptop/portable
> > for this kind of development.
> >
> > Would you trust a $600 14/15''  (1200x800) laptop with 1gig (or 512?)
> > of RAM, or suggest not spending less than $1000?  Would you rather lug
> > an iMac or LCD and mini?
> >
> > Which brands are the least headache (proprietary drivers alright,
> > rebuilding the kernel is pushing it.)  for getting a comfortable (not
> > necessarily ideal) Linux development box?
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:49:17 -0500
> From: Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] Comfortable portable development machine
> To: Atul Varma <varmaa at gmail.com>
> Cc: olpc-chicago at laptop.org
> Message-ID: <465DF15D.4070303 at colorstudy.com>
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> Atul Varma wrote:
> > When it comes to laptops, Linux can be a big hassle due to the
> > variance in APM/ACPI implementations.  I believe that Ian Bicking once
> > told me that he uses Windows on his laptop as a sort of "hardware
> > abstraction layer": Windows plays nicely with his laptop's power
> > management, allowing him to suspend and hibernate very easily, and he
> > simply runs VMWare with a Linux VM image inside it to do all his
> > actual work.  The fact that the Linux VM can be easily transported,
> > backed-up, etc. is an added bonus.  (If you're reading this, Ian,
> > please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)
>
> Yeah, that's what I do, but it also sucks.  If you want to run Linux you
> want to be very careful about what kind of laptop you buy.  Thinkpads
> seem to be the best.  I saw someone who was really happy with their
> small Vaio notebook, but I imagine it varies from one model to another;
> the Vaio I had for a while never worked that well.
>
> --
> Ian Bicking | ianb at colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org
>              | Write code, do good | http://topp.openplans.org/careers
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