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> <br>Cheap, reliable and fantastic!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Cremona</b> <<a href="mailto:john.cremona@gmail.com">john.cremona@gmail.com</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:martin@stupids.org">martin@stupids.org</a>> wrote:
<br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> I'm looking for advice on a good laptop to run Linux on.<br>><br>> What I care about:<br>><br>> - Small and light.<br>> - Fast.<br>> - Supported graphics without binary drivers.
<br>> - Supported wireless without binary drivers.<br>> - x86-64<br>><br>> What I don't care about:<br>><br>> - Disk size. (anything available these days would be more than enough)<br>> - Audio / speaker quality.
<br>> - dvd/r/rw/blah features. (as long as it can read)<br>> - Price. (within reason)<br>> - Anything else I haven't mentioned.<br>><br>> Any suggestions?<br>><br>> --<br>> Martin.<br>><br>
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