[linux-audio-user] To MacBook or not to MacBook, that's the question

[Ken Restivo]

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On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 10:59:28PM -1000, david wrote:
> Toshiba, IBM Thinkpad, Sony have all been fine in my experience. My 
> Linux laptop experience is limited to Toshiba, where everything just 
> worked on two different models.
> 
> I understand that Sony hardware is not Linux friendly.
>

I found the old Sony VAIO's to be the most ergonomically-correct (for me) laptops around. No other keyboard has come close.

I had a PCG-F190 and then a PCG-F290 and I loved them dearly. But I only used them at home and never took them out of the house, because they were 1) horribly fragile, and 2) so underpowered that I basically just used them as VNC clients to a "real" computer (a 1.2Ghz Athlon with 1GB RAM) that was actually capable of running desktop applications. The NeoMagic video was pretty well-supported in X, and the NeoMagic audio was useless (never worked properly with either ALSA or OSS) but I stuffed a USB audio dongle in the thing and got sound out of it just fine.

I dunno about the newer VAIO's being any less Linux-friendly than any other laptop with proprietary WIFI and proprietary LoseModem and proprietary video drivers. 

- -ken
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