On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote: > Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS > fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still mostly pretty good with Linux, at least when I was looking last year. Those business-oriented systems seem to be developed separately to the consumer-grade ones which get in the news for the wrong reasons. The business lines are more expensive, but you do get a better built system. Is anyone interested in distilling the kind of info we're discussing into a nice 'how to buy a computer for Linux' website? Is there already such a site? I did one quick search and found posts like these: http://www.howtogeek.com/185286/how-to-buy-a-laptop-for-linux/ http://www.ebay.com/gds/Linux-Laptop-Buying-Guide-/10000000177741943/g.html ...but no nice friendly overview site. Maybe this is something we could discuss/work on at a future PLUG meeting. Thomas -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------