My first question would be:
Have you looked at any of the suppliers who sell with Debian preinstalled?

I would definitely get a laptop/ notebook with an Nvidia graphics card. Nvidia support is excellent. ATI support (even with proprietary drivers) is not so great.

Look at the internal wireless card. It's possible to get a broadcom card working but they don'twork well. I've seen laptops with builtin Atheros chipset cards. Atheros, Orinoco, and Prism cards are great. However, I personally prefer wireless pcmcia cards with external antenna connectors su as Ubiquity.


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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:50:15 +0000 (GMT)
Donald Davis <donald_g_davis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> My first question would be:
> Have you looked at any of the suppliers who sell with Debian preinstalled?
>
> I would definitely get a laptop/ notebook with an Nvidia graphics card. Nvidia support is excellent. ATI support (even with proprietary drivers) is not so great.

I believe that Intel graphics are also well supported (my laptop has a
945GM; it works fine, but I haven't tried to do anything particularly
challenging with it).

> Look at the internal wireless card. It's possible to get a broadcom card working but they don't work well. I've seen

My Acer Aspire's (3690-2672) Broadcom 4318 does, indeed, not work with
the native bcm43xx (I haven't yet tried the next generation b43 code
yet) as well as I would like [0], but it works flawlessly under
ndiswrapper. Note that in the thread referenced above, there's a
discussion about an Acer screen flicker problem that can crop up in
various contexts

> laptops with builtin Atheros chipset cards. Atheros, Orinoco, and Prism cards are great. However, I personally prefer wireless pcmcia cards with external antenna connectors su as Ubiquity.

Atheros is certainly great (I haven't used the other two), although
you'll have to accept the non-free HAL.

BTW, you might consider posting questions like this on debian-laptop.

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https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/b...er/005769.html

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