On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll stick with Lenovos. My R51 is still going strong. > http://charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html. My T61 (BIOS dated > 07/01/2008) is doing fine. Both run Ubuntu and Debian just fine, but > require proprietary bits for the wireless (ipw2200 and iwl3945, > respectively). I don't get the love for Lenovo laptops. That's what we generally get at work, but it feels to me as if they've gone way downhill since being spun off from IBM. I had an IBM-branded T41p that worked well, aside from the poor monitor resolution. I switched to a W500 a couple of years ago that's more powerful and has a much nicer display, but the construction feels considerably cheaper and it's got numerous issues sleeping and waking, whether I use Windows or Linux. I mostly use Linux, and I can't rely on it waking back up after I close the lid. Often it will screw up in a partially-asleep state in which it chews up the battery and emits a ton of heat. Plus, they are ugly. I didn't mind it so much when they were IBM and it felt like a interesting high-quality rugged ugly, but now they're just a boring cheap-feeling ugly. If I'm here long enough to need a new laptop, I'll get a Macbook instead. --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
