Linux Laptops

[Rich Edelman]

On Monday 22 January 2007 22:14, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 January 2007 01:44, Rich Edelman wrote:
> > On Monday 22 January 2007 16:10, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > > I see Linux laptops advertised in my Linux magazines all the time.  A
> > > little googling yeilds this:
> > > http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
> >
> > Personally, my favorite laptops are IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. I've never had
> > one that didn't work great with linux, and I'm on my fourth.
> > LinuxCertified sells them, but they're twice as much as ordering direct
> > from Lenovo. Sure, if you order from Lenovo you have to pay the microsoft
> > tax. Although I think I remember reading somewhere you could order them
> > with no OS, or preloaded with Linux even direct from Lenovo.
>
> Thinkpads use undocumented and unsupported hardware. :(

I guess I don't understand how you get unsupported from 'works great'. The 
ONLY thing I've had a problem with on a thinkpad is the ACPI buttons. I can 
see undocumented, as the ATI Mobility chips that are a graphic option 
are 'undocumented'. But not unsupported.

Suspend to disk/ram and even resume work fine. I can take the laptop out of 
the dock without shutting down and the system doesn't miss a beat.

Hell, even the fingerprint scanner on the new models work great with linux. 
Google libthinkfinger.

Except when I ran gentoo, I've never had problems getting any part of any of 
my Thinkpads to work.

So please, explain.