Notebook for only Linux

Hi All, I have just joined this great forum which gives lot of help.

I am working in Seoul.

I have an LG notebooks which sucks. though its high configured
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
T7500 @2.20 GHz
1 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS etc

Its LCD screen hurts my eyes a lot and when i tried to install Fedora 7 and 8 it crashed at the boot time itself. CentOS is ok with some problems with Xwindows/Graphics still.

I want to replace this with Lenevo R61 for Linux by my manager.
Intel Core 2 Duo T7100
Clock 1.80 GHz
FSB 800 MHz
Internal L2 Cache 2 MB

1 GB RAM
FSB 667 MHz
DDR2 SDRAM

Video RAM std. / max. 128MB
Chipset NVIDIA NB8M-GS
(max video RAM) 2048x1536 16777216

WSXGA+ TFT with integrated camera
15.4"
Resolution: 1680x1050

120 GB HDD
etc

Please let me know is it a good Notebook for Linux. I will have no choice if this fails. Plz give me suggestions.

Thanks,
Kiran

 

I think you're better of with the LG, 2.2GHz vs 1.8GHz. LG has one of the best screens out there, what do you mean it hurts your eyes? Is it too bright? Because ThinkPads has one of the dimmest screens out there, make sure you try it out before buying/trading. As far as Linux is envolved, why not get a cheap notebook for that. You would have two

 

Its not the problem of brighness... I dont know whats the problem. if i see a normal desktop computer for the whole day, i dont have any probs. but if i see this LG screen, i get irritation very quickly.

 

For a Linux distro, try SimplyMEPIS.

 

LCD screens look blurry unless they are running at their native resolution. So, make sure that is what you are running.

As for the Lenovo computer it is very good. I recommend going with the Intel integrated video card rather than nvidia because it saves a lot of power and it gives very good performance. But, if you are into super intense 3D games go with nvidia.

I did a writeup about my experiences with my ThinkPad:
http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/finding-the-right-distro-for-my-thinkpad-t61-part1/

 

Which video driver is being used? Fedora does not install the Nvidia driver by default. If you go to the Nvidia Linux driver site they should have a package pre-built for it there. Once you get that installed you can change the resolution to something more eye pleasing.

 

Or you could add the livna repo to your yum.repos.d directory and then you can yum install kmod-nvidia which will pull a bunch of packages with it. This is the nvidia driver and it will update itself/whenever you run yum update. All you have to do it edit xorg.conf after this to use the nvidia driver.

If you need more detailed instructions pls ask. Also any laptop is good for Linux you just have to know how to get it working . My decision maker would be getting the laptop with the higher resolution screen as mine is 1280x800 for a 15" and I know I'd definitely like it at higher rez.