On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Simon Royal wrote:
I have been told IBM Thinkpads are good for Linux can anyone recommend anything in particular?
What's your budget? This will make a *huge* difference, also do you want a "normal" laptop or a ultra-portable type? I recently purchased a brand new thinkpad X32 on ebay for 600 quid which came with a wireless card pre-installed. That deal also included a CD-rom drive+case+port replicator and some other bits.
If you are looking at the 200-300 quid mark then a T20 series would be a likely candidate (and at the lower end of that amount of dosh) they come with Pentium III cpus from 700Mhz to 1.13Ghz in some of the T23s and truely were excellent machines. If you have more then a T40 series would be excellent as would an X30 series (the X series is more "portable" so they don't come with built in CD or DVD drives). The other stuff, R and A series are a bit lower end with regard to construction so personally I'd not bother with them.
Also I want to buy a wireless PCMCIA card that will work on a laptop and under Linux, any suggestions?
Depends on how much you spend on the laptop really ;) Of course the Linux Emporium now sell wireless cards specifically that work with Linux see http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/ for more.
Thanks Adam