Laptop recommendations?

[Epsas Nova]

Well, the differences in performance and features among different brands of laptops are negligible.  The most important thing for a laptop is endurance, imho.  IBM has always made the best high-end laptops - stay away from Sony and Toshiba (unless you want to get a high-end tecra).  If you are adventurous, you can always go for the Mac iBook or TiBook.  They run Java nice with OSX, and the Project Builder IDE is rather nice forcreating pure Java apps.

But, for x86 - I reccomend IBM ThinkPads.  Even the low-end ones are nice.


On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:57:17AM -1000, Roderick A Gammon wrote:
> Aloha-
> 
> I am need to setup a laptop with linux so I can work Java 2 EE on the road.
> I figured I'd go to payhalf.com and get an older model.  But I haven't had a
> laptop in about 7 years, so I'd appreciate any suggestions.
> 
> My requirements are:
> * Runs linux (prob. redhat) simply and smoothly without suprises
> * "fast" enough to support a single user accessing the following apps over
> localhost http or X-Windows
> * Postgresql on UTF8 tables with large record counts (100K+)
> * Apache
> * Tomcat servlet / jsp engine
> * Java jdk 1.3
> * JBuilder 5
> * Samba / DHCP (so I can just plug into net and download to a machine with a
> cd burner)
> 
> I don't need fancy USB or video system, sound system etc.  Just something I
> can take on the road and code on.  Any brands that work good with linux?
> Any suggestions on processor / ram specs?  I don't need super fast, but
> don't want turtle speeds either.
> 
> Just for kicks, I do have a portable HP-CDRW that runs USB.  Any comments on
> how to get that working with a linux laptop?
> 
> thanks!
> Rod G
> 
> 
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