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A comment on Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternatives do we have?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternative... by Arnt on Monday October 31, 2016 @05:27AM (#12835285)
The thinkpads have a long, long history of working well with linux and bsd, too long for it to be a coincidence. The ideapads... don't.

"Developer Edition" is Dell's corporatespeak for "we made sure this works with linux".

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Re:Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternative... by dom0 on Monday October 31, 2016 @05:29AM (#12835299)
With IdeaPads it's just totally model dependent. Some models work great with Linux, some don't work at all.
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Re:Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternative... by Arnt on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:47AM (#12835650)
I really wish I could find anything at all that works well with linux, has at least 4G RAM (better 8 or 16), doesn't have a heavy screen , and is no wider than 28cm. Buying laptops has become really, really difficult. </digression>
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Re:Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternative... by dom0 on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:23PM (#12840605)
28 cm width essentially excludes the 11.6" to 13.x" category, which are typically at least ~29 cm wide.

So you're probably looking at a 10.6" netbook.

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Re:Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternative... by Arnt on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:28AM (#12853972)
Well, I'd probably take an 8G 29cm thing over 4G 28cm, but that doesn't seem to matter much, since I can't find any of either. The small ones all seem to either be tablets with a lightweight attachable keyboard (ie. prone to tip backwards) or they have a locked BIOS and can only run chromeos.
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