Toshiba Satellite Pro M40

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:48:40PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> TigerDirect.ca is selling Toshiba Satellite Pro M40 for $799.99.  Specs
> are
>     - Celeron M380, 1.6GHz
>     - ATI Radeon Xpress 200M video, 1280x800 screen, 1920x1440 external
>     - Realtek ALC250 sound
>     - Atheros 802.11/bg wifi
>     - 10/100 lan (unknown chipset)
> 
> Can anyone share his/her experience with this one?  My main concern is
> ATI video.  It sounds like Windows kind of things.

The ATI chipset is a bigger worry.  So far a lot of people have had big
problems getting linux working on those.  The video can also be a real
pain.  ATI has a reputation for writing bad drivers.  Nothing wrong with
the hardware itself in general, but that doens't help if you can't use
it.

For a celeron machine, you are a lot better of with a full centrino
system, since intel chipsets are supported and work, and even intel's
wireless has a lot of linux development work taking place.  They seem to
actually care a bit about linux support.

I personally would not buy one.  And that's not just because I am not a
laptop fan. :)

Len Sorensen
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