Hey Wesley, I'd recommend looking at 2nd-hand lenovo thinkpads. The ones that I've personally run debian on with good results are the T500, T400, X200s & X230. There's loads of examples and details on thinkwiki.org
I reckon you'll be selling that mac pretty soon ;-) Cheers, Mark Wesley Dunnahoo: > I just found this list and would like to ask for suggestions for buying a > laptop to run Debian Linux for college. I don't care if it's new or used. I > looked at buying a Pi Top but the cost seems high for something you have to > buy a CPU to get it working. I already have two Raspberry Pi machines > running the Raspbian port of Debian and really like them. I don't want to > carry my Mac or an expensive machine to college as I don't want it to be > stolen. I don't want to buy a machine where I have to pay for a copy of > Windows I'll never use. > > I bought an Ubuntu PowerSpec N108 tower I use at home but when I installed > Debian on it, it would crash whenever I logged out or the screen saver > started. I don't want to buy a laptop that has similar problem with Debian. > I suspect the problem is with the Intel graphics chip because it doesn't have > any other graphics hardware. I hope it isn't because of the Celeron CPU. > > Thank you very much everyone! > -- www.re-pute.it _/ _/ _/ a laptop with ethics to be proud of
