[plug] laptop

[Jason]

I've had a Sony Vaio Z1GP (Their first Centrino lappy) for the past 3 years or so and I've had absolutely no problems.

I immediately removed the windows partition and installed redhat on it with no issues whatsoever (apart from no wireless drivers back then) and about 
a year ago moved to debian and have had absolutely zero issues with anything, including the cdrom/rw drive.

The only issue I *did* have were related to service, which I agree, is terrible.  Plus the build quality is definately lower than I would have 
expected.

My fiance also ran debian on an old (p3/850?) Vaio FX770K (Or similar) with little to no problems.

Jason.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:07:34PM -0700, Fred Janon wrote:
> I can't really give you any feedback on running Linux on either laptops
> but I had a laptop from Sony and I even ran into problems installing a
> regular version of Windows on it. They come with a Sony customized
> Windows and proprietary hardware. Even the Windows drivers for their
> CD-ROM/RW drives are not public. I imagine that they would not make
> public any H/W info to write Linux Open Source drivers. My experience
> with their service was pretty bad. I paid a lot more money for the Sony
> laptop than another brand and didn't get much more that the slick
> design and the brand name.
> 
> Apple laptops are still more expensive than the competition but now
> with the Intel procs you can even run OS X and Windows. The Apple
> service is very good in my experience and LOTS of people do Linux
> things with them. I see a lot of people doing Web development on them.
> When I have enough money, I'll probably buy one for my business.
> 
> Fred
> 
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