[ltp] linux laptop (was: Buying a T41p)

[Michelle Klein-Hass]

>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Jeffrey Taylor [mailto:jeff.taylor@ieee.org]
>>  Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 10:42 AM
>>
>>  Quoting Ivarsson, Torbjorn (T) <tivarsson@lucent.com>:
>>  > On a slightly different topic... I friend of mine mentioned
>>  something about an interview in a Linux magazine recently. In that
>>  interview some IBM guy spilled some info about a coming (as in later
>>  this year) Linux laptop from IBM. Has anyone heard this? Is there a
>>  link somewhere?
>>  >
>>
>>  IIRC, IBM is working internally to move to Linux on desktops and
>>  laptops.  And he said IBM doesn't move very fast, so it will probably
>>  be two years before anything is available outside IBM.
>>
>>  Don't remember where I saw it.
>
>Here's the link that mentions what I mentioned...
>
>http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7464&mode=thread&order=0
>
>It's a couple of paragraphs down. Take it for what it is...

I think it's coming sooner than Doc Searls thinks.

According to the IBM-ers I spoke to at SCALE last year, they have 
plans to sell SuSE preloaded ThinkPads by the end of this year. IBM 
Credit might go first with their refurbed off-lease ThinkPads.

And it's true: IBM moves slowly and cautiously. One of the guys at 
SCALE compared how IBM moves to steering a supertanker. The switch to 
Linux on the desktop has been in the pipeline for quite a while.

HTH,
Michelle