[Gllug] Linux laptops

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On 06/12/11 16:05, Philip Hands wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:17:31 +0000, Avi Greenbury<lists at avi.co>  wrote:
>> John G Walker wrote:
>>
>>> My years-old Thinkpad has died on me, so I need a new laptop. I only
>>> use the laptop for word-processing, spreadsheets and web browsing, so
>>> I don't need anything sophisticated.
>>>
>>> What are the current suggestions for laptops running Linux?
>> I know of several Lenovo Thinkpads on which Debian, Ubuntu and/or
>> Fedora have Just Worked. Not so sure about the only-free-firmware
>> Debians.
>
Recently received a Lenovo t61 laptop, which I'm over the moon with for 
several reasons. Mainly because it runs well with Linux, it is built 
solid like a brick, it has a fantastic range of accessories, I.E. I've 
brought a caddy to carry a 2nd harddrive, which is hot swappable with 
the CDrom drive. two different docks, one which has DVI/HDMI support so 
great to connect to the TV, and so on.

I've already got an Asus K52F which has been fantastic for me. I've 
placed Ubuntu on it, then upgraded to Mint, Debian, Bodie and now 
settled running Archlinux on it, all of which ran very well, most common 
issue was up-side down camera but thats an easy fix.

Both of these laptops have had several posts all over the web about 
running Linux on it, so there is some good documentation out there.

If wordprocessing is the main/only thing, Lenovo laptops have fantastic 
keyboards on them, feel so nice to type on.

regards
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