I recommend Dell. I use a Dell Inspiron, bought a few months ago and I run Kubuntu. I've not had any problems and with an Ubuntu installation it'll probably "just work." I have an ATI graphcs card inside it, which does require a binary driver (which is trivial to set up with Ubuntu) although you can choose a different model without the more expensive graphics cards.
<br>&nbsp;<br>Cheap, reliable and fantastic!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Cremona</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:john.cremona@gmail.com">john.cremona@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I was wondering the same thing, and had considered one of the Lenovo<br>Thinkpads (was IBM) as supplied by the Linux Emporium with Ubuntu
<br>pre-installed.<br><br>If anyone else has any experience with those it would be useful to hear!<br><br>John Cremona<br><br>On 20/11/2007, martin &lt;<a href="mailto:martin@stupids.org">martin@stupids.org</a>&gt; wrote:
<br>&gt; Hi all,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I&#39;m looking for advice on a good laptop to run Linux on.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; What I care about:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; - Small and light.<br>&gt; - Fast.<br>&gt; - Supported graphics without binary drivers.
<br>&gt; - Supported wireless without binary drivers.<br>&gt; - x86-64<br>&gt;<br>&gt; What I don&#39;t care about:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; - Disk size. (anything available these days would be more than enough)<br>&gt; - Audio / speaker quality.
<br>&gt; - dvd/r/rw/blah features. (as long as it can read)<br>&gt; - Price. (within reason)<br>&gt; - Anything else I haven&#39;t mentioned.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Any suggestions?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; --<br>&gt; Martin.<br>&gt;<br>
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