G'day,
I'll second the Dell being fine on Ubuntu (for the single user). When
you say "entry level" it means different things to most users. There's
the BenQ range of Intel CPU-driven units, but some of the Dell laptops
(such at the lowest level XPS M1210) are $1800 or so and offer a tiny,
reasonable light laptop that work with linux out of the box (at least
with Ubuntu - the others don't wish to make friends with wireless quite
so readily).
Best bet is to probably check what they want in terms of price, find the
best deals in terms of the laptop and then check for compatibility
before giving them a short list. From recent experiences though I'd
have to say that Ubuntu is definately the distro I'd run on virtually
any laptop (albeit not on a desktop because of the way it whacks laptop
junk all over it anyway).
nVidia drivers are actually alright under Ubuntu (I can suspend to RAM
out of the box) and if you use nv (which is really a non-issue in many
cases) you can do both. There are ways to force it to unload the module
and then suspend to disk, but as many people will tell you, suspending
to disk is slower and usually "less effective" (I have no idea what they
mean by that, but I'm guessing in terms of cost/work/time effective).
Hoo Roo,
Alex.
Russell Davie wrote:
Hi
Thanks for all who responded so promptly on and off list for help with getting
a laptop.
1) get Intel chipset, avoid the rest
2) Dell, IBM and Toshiba work, (highest number of replies first)
training?
still hunting..
cheers
Russell
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