[Compaq Armada M700?]

[Ben Pfaff]

Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> writes:

> The only things in the spec that would give me pause are the Rage Mobility and
> the MiniPCI card.  The video is definitely supported somewhere; I just don't
> know whether it's in 3.3.6 or 4.0.3 or both.  The MiniPCI card may require a
> 2.2.18 or 2.4.3 kernel to work, but that's no problem, right?  I recall seeing
> some stuff on c.o.l.hardware regarding these cards--also check c.o.l.portable.
>  Ben almost certainly knows about http://www.walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/
> for getting a Lucent Losemodem to work under Linux.

I'm quite confident that I can make almost everything work, due
to several of the laptop webpages I've read.  The modem sounds a
little iffy but (1) I don't plan to use it, (2) I'm willing to
buy a PC Card if my plans changes.

> The price looks a bit on the high side... I paid $1200 for a Thinkpad 600X
> (128M, 6G, P3-450, NeoMagic256 video, 24x CD, 14.1" TFT, Lucent Losemodem,
> 2PCMCIA+2USB+standard ports on back.  All built-in hardware works great under
> SuSE 7.0, kernel 2.2.16/XFree 3.3.6/Lucent driver from above.)  Laptop memory
> and drive space are both expensive though, the Compaq has built-in Ethernet,
> and the CD-ROM they sold me has decided to die.  

Yeah, the price is a *little* iffy, but the M700 is in Compaq's
Expensive Bastard series of laptops (well, they don't call it
that exactly).  Supposedly these are higher-quality, come with
longer warranties and better support, etc.  Whether this is true
and to what extent remains to be seen based on my research...
-- 
"The road to hell is paved with convenient shortcuts."
--Peter da Silva