Re: Good laptops for Solaris 10

From: Greg Menke (gregm-news_at_toadmail.com)
Date: 05/31/05


Date: 30 May 2005 19:19:02 -0400


Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
> On Mon, 30 May 2005, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a good laptop for Solaris 10? By `good' I mean
> > something that will *just work* the way sparc machines just work,
>
> I don't think anything in x86 land is that straightforward... :-/
>
> > which is reasonably light (the nx9005 fails dismally on this count),
> > which has a screen of at least 1024x768 and preferably which I can get
> > second hand somewhere for cheap. It doesn't need to be very fast or
> > anything.
>
> I'd recommend the Acer Ferrari 3400. I've also heard good things about
> the Toshiba M20.

Cannot boot from cdrom on my Toshiba Tecra M2-S730 - the boot stops
indefinitely partway into the install cd. Too bad- it makes a nice
Linux laptop, with the control key in the lower left instead of the
beastly Fn key down there. I even kept a 10 gig partition for S10 but
no dice at the moment.

Gregm