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180 lines
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HTML
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TITLE="Which Laptop to Buy?"
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TITLE="Portables, Laptops/Notebooks, Sub/Mini-Notebooks, Palmtops, PDAs/HPCs"
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>Linux on the Road: </TH
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>Chapter 1. Which Laptop to Buy?</TD
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>1.3. Linux Features</H1
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> Due to a lack of support by some manufacturers, not every feature of a
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laptop is always supported or fully operational. The main devices which
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may cause trouble are: graphics chip, <SPAN
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>PCMCIA</SPAN
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> controller , PnP devices and internal modem.
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Please try to get as much information about these topics before buying a
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laptop. But often it isn't quite easy to get the necessary information.
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Sometimes even the specifications or the hotline of the manufacturer
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aren't able to provide the information. Therefore I have included a
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Linux Compatibility Check chapter in every section of
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HREF="mobile-guide-p2-mobile-hardware.html"
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>Part V in <I
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>Linux on the Road</I
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> Hardware In Detail
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below.
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> Depending on your needs, you might investigate one of the vendors that
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provide laptops pre-loaded with Linux. By purchasing a pre-loaded Linux
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laptop, much of the guesswork and time spent downloading additional
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packages could be avoided. See TuxMobil for a
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<A
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>survey of Linux laptop,
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notebook, PDA and mobile phone vendors</A
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