Buying a desktop replacement ( Sony vaio, Alienware area )

dreambox · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 137

Hi
I'm planning to buy a desktop replacement, and were thinking of sony PCG-GRT716S or PCGGRT816S, but of course i want it linux compatible ( gentoo indeed

). Did anyone have chance to try it with linux? I didn't really find something consistent when googeling...

Ah, other laptop, The Area-51 of Alienware ( http://www.alienware.co.uk/system_pages/area-51m.aspx ) is a beast, very nice design, upgradable... checkit out! - But I wonder if someone tried it with linux. Only drawback: Seems a bit expensive.

Ciao
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ronmon · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 3:02 pm Post subject:

Check this one. There is a Chipset link and it looks like everything is compatible. What I like about these guys is that you can choose your OS. Win2k is available and NONE is the default choice :)

My personal lappy came from them naked and runs Gentoo. But I have bought several for a client that uses apps that will not run on XP so we got them with 2k.

dreambox · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 137

Thanks for the info. It sounds powerful, is it available in europe ( france )?

Again I would appreciate if anyone has information on laptop i described in first post...

Ciao
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Toshiba Tecra 8200
PIII 750Mhz 512Mb 20Gb Hdd
Trident CyberBladeXP 16Mb

Windows Where do you want to go today? MacOS Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux Are you coming...