[Klug-general] Laptop purchase. any recommendations?

[Stuart Brand]

MacBook Pro


On Monday, June 01, 2009, at 10:29AM, "Matt House" <matt at theshadowaspect.com> wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Due to lack of space, and in an effort to reclaim some of the spare  
>room, I'm contemplating the idea of moving over to a laptop for the  
>majority of my uses.
>
>Problem is I haven't used a laptop extensively (netbooks aside) for so  
>long I'm not really sure what's good any more!
>
>My current set up is a 2.4GHz Core 2 with 2Gb DDR2 and an Nvidia  
>7600GT. I'd like something that roughly matches those specs. I'm also  
>looking at something that is portable as I commute into London on a  
>daily basis and would like to be able to use it on the train.
>
>I've been looking around and think I've found a couple of machines  
>that I think fit the bill, one being the Dell XPS M1330[1] and the  
>other being the Thinkpad x61[2].
>
>What I'm after is to start of some good banter about decent modern  
>laptops for Linux (Arch is my flavour of choice) and hopefully glean  
>some recommendations/pitfalls from peeps.
>
>To put this in perspective the last laptop I used extensively was a  
>Pentium III Thinkpad x21 :P
>
>Apologies if this has been done to death already!
>
>Matt
>
>[1] http://www.reevoo.com/reviews/ean/5391507660855
>[2] http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3765
>
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