The LC2100 LinuxCertified Laptop

When deciding to use Linux on a notebook PC, nothing beats going Linux certified. The most obvious reasons for this is that you know all of the hardware is set to work - right out of the box.

Today, OSNews shows us a great review of LC2100 LinuxCertified Laptop. Running with Fedora Core 2 pre-installed, it is reported that if you wanted to wait, you can get it with Fedora Core 3 pre-installed later on in 2005. While the computer is a great Linux powerhouse, there are apparently some issues regarding 3D rendering that are hoped to be resolved with Fedora Core 3.

LinuxCertified.com offers a solution for the users who require ultimate mobility: the LC2100 laptop loaded with the Linux of your choice. For more info and screenshots/images, read more.

The laptop weighs only 4lbs (it’s lighter than the 12″ Apple Powerbook which weighs 4.6 lbs) making it an excellent mobile powerhouse. It is equipped with a Centrino CPU at 1.6 GHz with 2 MB of cache, making it a real speed demon. In fact, we were happy to see LinuxCertified.com including a speed stepping utility by default, where the CPU would vary from 600 Mhz to 1.6 GHz depending on how much CPU power it’s needed at each given time. The machine crunched 325 fps on glxgears *without* 3D acceleration.

Other hardware characteristics include 512 MBs of RAM, an 855GME Intel graphics card (dynamic allocation of VRAM), 40 GB of hard drive, a combo drive, a 4-in-1 reader, a pcmcia port, on board modem and ethernet card, a firewire port, USB 2.0 ports and more. The screen is beautiful 12″ wide-screen LCD, with a resolution of 1280×800. The screen has better angle/quality/brightness than my 12″ Powerbook’s. The machine also came with a mini-PCI wifi card, while it has the ability to expand itself with an optional Bluetooth module (picture one of the laptop, and picture two of the laptop and the powerbook next to each other).