[H-GEN] Toshiba notebook.

[Joel Michael]

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On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 11:11, Andrae Muys wrote:
> Either today or tomorrow I plan to buy myself a notebook, at the moment the 
> one I'm seriously considering is a Toshiba TE2100.  However it does come 
> with a GeForce4 420GO video card, which I haven't been able to find in any 
> hardware compatibility lists anywhere.  I was wondering if anyone had any 
> experience with this chipset?  (Or this notebook for that matter?)
> 
Well, it's a GeForce, so the nvidia-supplied drivers will work, but
possibly not the XFree86 stock drivers.  However, be VERY careful with
the nvidia-supplied drivers, as I've had them leak memory very badly. 
It's scary to see X using 800MB of memory ;-)

Also, as others have mentioned, you may be interested in an Apple
iBook.  However, you don't HAVE to run Linux on it, you could run OS X,
and still have a full-blown UNIX environment underneath the flashy GUI.
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