Dear Doc and VRM crew please could you encourage everyone involved to hurry up! People keep asking me for laptop recommendations, mostly for running Linux on but not always (but I’m always flattered in people’s belief that I have a clue), when all we really want to do is ask the internet;
select * from laptops where graphics_chipset=”Intel” and wireless_chipset not in (select * from bad_wifi) order by weight, price, .....
I don’t know much about VRM, and I’m not sure how I can contribute, but if anyone asked me what it is that would be my answer – so anytime you can make that happen I’ll be one happy fella. In the meantime if anyone cares to make recommendations leave a comment and I’ll pass them on.
The Dell Inspiron 1405 and 1505 are both pretty good but not super-light, but they are super-cheap and reasonably well built. I’d be tempted to look at a Mac Book if you need more portability.
— Rob J. Caskey May 22, 05:52 pm #
Rob,
Thanks for the tip(s). I’ll have a look at those and pass the suggestion on.
I use a MacBook C2D but I’m slightly weary of recommending it to anyone simply because it has an unsupported atheros wireless card that needs ndiswrapper to work. Generally it works OK but every now and again it’s a pain – it’s a shame because the laptop is so close to being perfect.
— Paul Cooper May 22, 10:24 pm #
From what I have seen, it looks like the madwifi driver has support for the newer atheros card in the c2d macs in their svn branch.
The particular bug report is here: http://madwifi.org/ticket/1001
— Chris Irwin May 23, 01:04 pm #