[Gllug] Seeking some laptop advice

[Rob Crowther]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> btw, Lenovo and Fujitsu still produce some decent kit as well these days.
>
We moved to Fujitsu laptops at work (Lifebook E8310) because the 
marketing people didn't like the 'blocky' look of the IBM/Lenovo lines. 
  They seem OK in build quality though not as good as the IBMs we had 
before: keyboards are a bit flimsy IMX, and some of the connectors use 
the 'held on by a thin strand of rubber' covers which get tatty very 
quickly and seem to me very likely to break off.  They were a bit 
cheaper than the IBMs too.

They all have XP on, of course, but I did install Ubuntu 8.04 64bit on 
one for a while and everything important seemed to work (graphics 
driver, wireless) but didn't test the built in SD or 3G modems.  No idea 
if you can buy them anywhere without Windows pre-installed.

Rob
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