I agree. I have always looked for the highest performance laptops I can afford, then reduced that list to those that are Linux compatible. Then, be sure to check the Linux compatibility of the major components/ships on the model you are looking at - in particular the graphics card, network controller, wifi, and bluetooth. Manufacturers are prone to change chipsets over time, so the review by Mr Linux Geek from last year on the model you like may no longer apply it the chipsets have changed. Sometimes you can customize your order and replace the non-Linux compatible components with Linux compatible components. I have had good luck with Dell machines for the past 10 years, so I would recommend them. They offer Linux on some machines, so you may be able to order that hardware.
If you are buying used, then a copy of a bootable distro is a must. Good luck! Mark On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Message: 2 > > Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:44:21 -0700 > > From: Tim Wescott <[email protected]> > > Subject: [PLUG] Linux Laptop Reviews > > To: PLUG <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: <1350679461.1966.4.camel@Servo-2> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > My Google-Fu fails me. Are there any up-to-date sites that have > > trustworthy reviews of laptops? Are there any up-to-date sites that > > have good information on various laptops and their compatibility to > > Linux? Are there any that do both at once? > > > Unfortunately not, to the best of my knowledge. However, what I've > done in the best is done a search on a particular laptop I'm > interested in buying and the specific Linux distro I want to run and > have found sufficient information to base my decision on. Albeit, if > you're looking to run Debian on a Lenovo laptop, your chances of > finding lots of good, useful info are much greater than if you're > trying to run a less well-known and used distro on an off-brand > laptop. The information you're looking for is out there, it's not just > conveniently in one place and easy to find. Linux might be free in > terms of money, but not so much in terms of time.... :-/ > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
