On 06/21/2010 11:56 AM, Mike Connors wrote: >> Could somebody please recommend, based on the personal experience, a >> decent notebook with the following >> characteristics: >> 1. 15 - 17" Display >> 2. Turion II or less desirable Athlon II dual core CPU. Quad core is >> fine as long as it's AMD >> 3. 1 GB Ethernet controller >> 4. Wi-Fi Wireless 802.11b/g/n controller which is known to work with >> Linux without excessive headaches. >> 5. nVidia integrated graphic controller. In the worst case scenario I >> can live with ATI Radeon. >> 6. At least 4GB DDR3 RAM expandable up to 8GB. I don't want to have >> older and slower DDR2 RAM. >> 7. Preferably in black or other non-flashy matte colors. I don't like >> that bright and cheesy silverish goldish el'cheapo glossy colors. >> >> Thank you in advance for any hints or recommendations. >> >> > I have good luck running diff Linux distros (*buntu, Debian, CentOS, > OpenSuse) on my Lenovo Thinkpad T60. I bought it refurbished in '07 and it > still runs great. > > I've used both of these sites for getting help w. installing and running > Linux on Thinkpads: > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html > > And I just discovered that the Lenovo web site has what appears to be very > good support and documentation. > "We are committed to providing our customers with information to assist you > in utilizing the Linux operating system on various personal computing > systems." > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-48nt8d > > Good luck w. finding a suitable notebook to run Linux on for school! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I would like to second the Lenovo experience. I called their tech support and asked for a recovery DVD as I wanted to reclaim the harddrive real estate their partition took up.
Not only did I get the DVDs, they remembered talking to me during a later phone call and inquired about the Linux installation and stability. Two Lenovos, running Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora 12, all x-64...very few glitches. Bruce _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
