On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote who="Russell Davie"> > > > A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would run > > Linux. > > > > Which is a good choice? > > I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can give you a big hint > that will help your purchasing decision: Buy Intel, from top to bottom. You > will have a massively better experience using Linux with a completely Intel > based laptop, particularly the video chipset.
I can second this. I bought a laptop with Nvidia graphics, thinking I could use the binary driver. While it does work, I have found that suspend and resume works better with the Free nv driver. I'd might as well have gone with the Intel, and I would have had better performance since the Free Intel drivers support 3D (nv is 2D only). Thinkpads have been long revered for their GNU/Linux support, but I don't know how they are these days. Dells _can_ be good due to the sheer number of people owning them, and hence the impetus to get them working with GNU/Linux. On the whole, my Dell Inspiron works very well. Some distributions have better laptop support than others. Ubuntu is a particularly friendly distro for laptops, and I don't think Fedora is bad either. -- "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." - the Duke of Edinburgh, at a World Wildlife Fund meeting, 1986
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