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169 lines
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>No Hardware Recommendations</TITLE
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>1.9. No Hardware Recommendations</H1
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> It's difficult to give any recommendations for a certain laptop
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model in general. Your personal needs have to be taken into account.
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Also the market is changing very quickly. I guess every three months a
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new generation of laptops (with bigger harddisk space, higher CPU
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speed, more display size, etc.) comes into the market. So I don't give
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any model or brand specific recommendations.
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But you may check my
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<A
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/laptop_manufacturer.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Linux support of laptop and notebook manufacturers survey</A
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> A good way to check Linux hardware compatibility the next time
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you go shopping a laptop is using a
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HREF="http://www.knoppix.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Knoppix CD/DVD</A
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The Knoppix hardware detection works quite well and is often
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capable to check all laptop hardware.
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