Re: [linuxiran] laptop

[Milad Niqui]

Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2003 00:54, Zoup wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 27 November 2003 00:02, Kaveh Mousavi wrote:
> >
> > > --- Zoup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I asked it because zoup told me that in his opinion
> > > the sony laptops are very good (in our last
> > > meeting)!!,
> > >
> > > arash did you have any problem with sony?
> > >
> > > regards
> > > Kaveh
> >
> > Some of those Vaio's are working good with Linux , at last as longest
> > as I've got one ! :)
> > i have an sony vaio 3304 ( cant remember!! ) , it was well , vaio io
> > programable working good in kernel , agp card , sound card and ...
> > working good , even i can get WinModem working under linux with that
> > vaio ...

Could you use the Sony memory stick under linux?

> > sony got no support for its products , 3 year ago i have send an
> > message to ask if that win modem working under linux or not , i'm
> > still waiting for answer ! ;)
>
>
> That's the difference between IBM and Sony, see; I asked the same 
> question from IBM, and I received 3 mails, from 3 different support 
> guys in less than 24 hours. They were very helpful, trying to locate 
> good Linux-Laptop related documents for me, and I tell you, they were 
> all using Linux themselves, cause they knew what they were talking 
> about. One of them even asked a KDE question from me, which I happily 
> answered!
>
> About the modem, the conversation went to this, that it's not really 
> IBM's fault. IBM likes to have driver for it's modems, but it's Lucent 
> (Agere) who is refusing to produce them. I received all kinds of 
> apologies from the IBM guys, from this. 
>
> As for the sony, I had a Vaio for a brief period of time, and I basicaly 
> agree with Arash. The Vaio was the worst laptop I have ever touched. 
> The worst screen I had ever seen, basicaly you had to sit comletely 
> straight across it, otherwise all you saw was a negative-like screen. 
> The keyboard also was really shaky, I wasn't confident with it.

The new Vaios come with Onyx-Block LCD which is a very crystal clear 
screen. It no longer has the polaroid effect that you mentioned. I 
haven't seen these kind of screens on other laptops yet.

My colleague recently bought a Sony Vaio PCG 315S with 2.66M, 512MB ram, 
60 GB of HDD DVD RW, with those onyx-block screens, and all that for 
1300 Euro (which is quite cheap compared to other marks). Not only sony 
seems to be the cheapest, but also (at least until a while ago) was  the 
only one offering laptops with Athlon processor (for me this is a plus). 
And I know that at least the RedHat installation goes quite smooth on a 
Vaio. However perhaps you are right that their support team doesn't know 
about Linux.
In general if you want to run Linux on a laptop you are on your own.


cheers,

Milad