Hello, all!
I'm currently in the market for a laptop/notebook computer on which to
have a fully free installation of Debian GNU/Linux.
That's is, I plan to have no proprietary programs whatsoever installed
on it. This doesn't mean that I won't install some programs which
Debian, as per the
debian-lap...@lists.debian.org
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On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 02:49:07 +0800, Testosticore Fantastiballs wrote:
I'm currently eying the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E130 and the Thinkpad
Edge E420. Have any of you had experience with any of these machines
or similar ones?
For the first machine:
I'm currently eying the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E130 and the Thinkpad Edge
E420. Have any of you had experience with any of these machines or similar
ones?
I own this, I love it:
http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2012/09/linux-and-samsung-series-9-np900x3c.html
Regards.
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On 28/03/14 05:49, Testosticore Fantastiballs wrote:
Hello, all!
I'm currently in the market for a laptop/notebook computer on which
to have a fully free installation of Debian GNU/Linux.
Sounds good.
That's is, I plan to have no proprietary programs whatsoever
installed on it. This
Happily Recommend this:
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2014-A-Fantastic-Revision/
Or The Haswell revision of the Acer Aspire S7
Or the Asus UX301
Basically if you are buying a laptop new. Don't buy anything that isn't a
Haswell chip - mainly due to battery life
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:16:35PM +, Brian wrote:
On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 02:49:07 +0800, Testosticore Fantastiballs wrote:
I'm currently eying the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E130 and the Thinkpad
Edge E420. Have any of you had experience with any of these machines
or similar ones?
For
Mark Phillips wrote at 2009-11-10 15:15 -0600:
Thanks for your laptop ideas!
I'm not sure what you are wanting here, but I own a ThinkPad and would
recommend considering those if you have not yet. Linux support is good and
somehow they don't have the cheap feel of many cheaper laptops.
My current Dell Latitude C640 has died, so I am in the market for a new
laptop. I am looking at either a refurbished Dell latitude D830 or a new
Dell Studio 1555. Both are about the same price ~$700.
The Studio 1555
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T6600 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
Genuine Windows® 7 Home
Does anyone have any recent experience, either good or bad, with any
specific laptops?
Just avoid ATI graphics cards, and nVidia as well (tho it's not as bad).
Integrated Intel graphics is often the best choice (best support under
GNU/Linux, best battery life as well).
How are they for
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:45 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Works, but it's not the fastest there is, obviously.
I don't think OpenGL matters too much for laptops (note that I don't
consider desktop replacements as laptops, really).
I think a blocking factor for many users is If I get an Intel
It's interesting to see so many people railing against ATI cards and
preferring Nvidia these days. I guess it depends upon your concerns.
For years now, I've always bought ATI to get usable 3D performance and
support out of the box on my Debian machines. I just use the open DRI
drivers
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:40 -0500, John M Flinchbaugh wrote:
I've come to understand that I'll not get compiz or beryl (flashy 3d
desktop environments) to work anytime soon on my ATI card, and I must
admit that I don't push my machine performance with many games.
My old Radeon 9100 works fine
On 2/23/07, John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's interesting to see so many people railing against ATI cards and
preferring Nvidia these days. I guess it depends upon your concerns.
For years now, I've always bought ATI to get usable 3D performance and
support out of the box on my
Stefan Monnier wrote:
Does anyone have any recent experience, either good or bad, with any
specific laptops?
Just avoid ATI graphics cards, and nVidia as well (tho it's not as bad).
Integrated Intel graphics is often the best choice (best support under
GNU/Linux, best battery life as
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:22:04 +0100
Lorenzo Bettini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tim Wescott wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations on a distro to use? I've got Etch
on this machine, and I'm mostly happy with it. At this point I'd like
to stick with something that has similar
Tim Wescott wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations on a distro to use? I've got Etch
on this machine, and I'm mostly happy with it. At this point I'd like
to stick with something that has similar administration issues, but if
there's a distro that's clearly better for laptops I'll go
Does anyone have any recent experience, either good or bad, with any
specific laptops?
Just avoid ATI graphics cards, and nVidia as well (tho it's not as bad).
Integrated Intel graphics is often the best choice (best support under
GNU/Linux, best battery life as well).
Stefan
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I am just documenting this for the mail archive.
On 2007-02-02T09:56:45+0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed Debian/unstable on a new Thinkpad Z61p. Unfortunately my
usual procedure using netboot Debian-NetInstaller didn't work, because
it didnt liked the Broadcom TG3 ethernet.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual
boot option just so you can verify that any problems you're having are
not hardware related. But
On 01 Feb 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual
boot option just so you can verify that any problems you're having are
not
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 02.02.2007 09:34:50:
I've just acquired a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61M and am still in the process of
setting up Debian on it. It's a beautiful machine, if expensive. Last
time I bought a Thinkpad, about 2 years ago, I deleted all traces of
Windows. This
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:34:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
more and more I think I should be building and selling
debian-installed computers...
But would they sell ;-)
I know i can count on you to buy one...
Careful now! I
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
more and more I think I should be building and selling
debian-installed computers...
But would they sell ;-
(Sorry if I got the quotes messed up: I'm in a hurry, and folks suck at
quoting ;)
I for one would be interested in a supplier of
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On 02/02/07 06:35, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:34:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
I would start in an area that M$ does *not* cover, like what I have:
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On 02/02/07 07:11, Timothy Musson wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
more and more I think I should be building and selling
debian-installed computers...
But would they sell ;-
(Sorry if I got the quotes messed up:
On 2/1/07, Tim Wescott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying
for Windows.
HP nx6110 is shipped with Freedos or Novell Linux Desktop 9 and works
good with Ubuntu 6.10. Modem and hibernation work fine. I didn't
install wi-fi drivers, but I
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:26:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/02/07 06:35, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:34:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
I would start in an area that M$ does *not* cover, like
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On 02/02/07 07:57, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:26:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/02/07 06:35, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:34:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 02.02.2007 15:30:57:
because it didnt liked the Broadcom TG3 ethernet.
[snip]
Same here. I used a pcmcia card (still using it in fact because Broadcom
still not working).
The www.kernel.org pristine kernel works with it,
I downloaded the
On 02 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 02.02.2007 09:34:50:
I've just acquired a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61M and am still in the process of
setting up Debian on it. It's a beautiful machine, if expensive. Last
time I bought a Thinkpad, about 2
Dmitri Minaev wrote:
On 2/1/07, Tim Wescott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying
for Windows.
HP nx6110 is shipped with Freedos or Novell Linux Desktop 9 and works
good with Ubuntu 6.10.
This:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:34:25AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
how ironic is it that you have to keep around a notoriously unreliable
operating system to prove to the manufacturer that their hardware is
failing...
I manage two Thinkpads: my own and
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 09:56 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Negative points:
The Z61p BIOS doesn't proivide a switch to Enable the Core2DUo
VT-functionality yet.
On the X60's and T60 it is already available.
That prevented me to use Xen HVM.
Hopefully Lenovo will add this feature with the
As for Thinkpads, I am so used to Hyper keys on the keyboard (aka
Windows-key :)) that I found these notebooks very uncomfortable.
AFAICT (I'm about to receive mine), the Thinkpad keyboards do have windows
keys now. And they're among the rare laptops with 3 buttons, which is
*very* convenient
Stefan Monnier wrote:
Actually, I'm surprised at how most linux-laptop vendors offer mostly
laptops with 2 buttons only, given that X11 has traditionally been used
with 3-button mice, and so many applications make use of all 3.
My Thinkpads actually have 5, though two are just 'duplicates' of
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:34:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
more and more I think I should be building and selling
debian-installed computers...
But would they sell ;-)
I know i can count on you to buy
Stefan Monnier wrote:
As for Thinkpads, I am so used to Hyper keys on the keyboard (aka
Windows-key :)) that I found these notebooks very uncomfortable.
AFAICT (I'm about to receive mine), the Thinkpad keyboards do have windows
keys now. And they're among the rare laptops with 3 buttons,
I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying
for Windows.
After looking around the web and asking locally, I've found two sources
of laptops that come new with Linux loaded. One is Linux Certified, the
other Emperor Linux. Linux Certified has name-brand laptops
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:31:23 -0800
Tim Wescott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without
paying for Windows.
After looking around the web and asking locally, I've found two
sources of laptops that come new with Linux loaded. One is Linux
Tim Wescott wrote:
I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying
for Windows.
After looking around the web and asking locally, I've found two sources
of laptops that come new with Linux loaded. One is Linux Certified, the
other Emperor Linux. Linux Certified has
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual
boot option just so you can verify that any problems you're having are
not hardware related. But if you're more hardware savvy
On Thu February 1 2007 08:31, Tim Wescott wrote:
I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying
for Windows.
After looking around the web and asking locally, I've found two sources
of laptops that come new with Linux loaded. One is Linux Certified, the
other Emperor
Alan Ianson wrote:
...
I bought an hp pavilion second hand last year, not that I was really in the
market for a laptop but the price was right. The unit is 3 or 4 years old now
but still like new. It has an Athlon k7 running at 1.7 Ghz and 768 megs of
ram and an ati video card (previous owner
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:05AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual
boot option just so you can verify that any problems
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a
dual boot option just so you can verify that any problems you're
Curt Howland wrote:
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On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:52, Rick Reynolds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a
dual boot option just so you can verify that
Kevin Mark writes:
So how exactly will Dell (or any ISP for that matter) help you with
issues if you dont have a supported OS that they say you need to check
the HW?
Dell could supply a test CD loaded with their custom test software.
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:37:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Kevin Mark writes:
So how exactly will Dell (or any ISP for that matter) help you with
issues if you dont have a supported OS that they say you need to check
the HW?
Dell could supply a test CD loaded with their custom test
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:05AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:37:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Kevin Mark writes:
So how exactly will Dell (or any ISP for that matter) help you with
issues if you dont have a supported OS that they say you need to check
the HW?
Dell could supply a test CD loaded with their custom test
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:31:23AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:
I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying
for Windows.
A Macbook. It even runs Etch, so you can setup a dual boot. There is
an excellent HOWTO at wiki.debian.org. I've had mine for 8 months and I
have
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:05AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:34:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
more and more I think I should be building and selling
debian-installed computers...
But would they sell ;-)
I know i can count on you to buy one...
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On Thursday 01 February 2007 17:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:31:23AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:
I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying
for Windows.
A Macbook. It even runs Etch, so you can setup a dual boot. There is
an excellent
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