Re:Can anyone suggest a nice laptop to run Linux?
by davidw on Friday May 04, 2007 @04:20AM
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Nice question. Since I'm going to be bootstrapping my own firm, I need to always keep an eye on saving money, and shelling out $$$ for an apple machine just isn't justifiable for me. And in any case, I've been using Linux for more than 10 years, so I don't want Mac OS X, and certainly don't want to pay extra for it.
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Re:Can anyone suggest a nice laptop to run Linux?
by cwilbur on Friday May 04, 2007 @11:30AM
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I run Fedora Core under Parallels, which is solid enough for a "does this work under Linux?" kind of test.
That said, if I had to buy a Linux laptop, I'd go for a Lenovo ThinkPad, but I'd make sure the one I bought had good driver support. Since the ThinkPads were introduced, I've only ever heard two things about running Linux on them -- "I can't find the @#$% driver for the @#$% @#$%," and "it runs beautifully."
Be careful about being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Lots of time gets sunk into getting and keeping all of the features (that you'll end up wanting) running on Linux boxes.
I did Thinkpads for as long as they've been around and fought that fight over and over and over again. Then I finally switched my laptops (and only my laptops :-) to Apple Powerbooks. Fully outfitted it was basically the same price as the high-end Thinkpads.