[Nottingham] Linux laptop

[Christopher Joice]

I use a Dell Inspiron 1501, again it has ATI but there are open source
divers out there for it, I just couldn't get them to do accelerated GL,
but probably my own fault.
The arch install disk didn't boot, so I just booted some other distro's
live cd and installed from there.
Nothing fancy on here, just 2gb of ram, AMD X2 Turion @ 2Ghz (Stepping
down to 0.8GHz working fine), keyboard, touchpad, screen and broadcom
wifi. Which again needs binary feeding to it but the driver is open.
Oh, and I went for the biggest battery they offered, so I get about 3
hours out of it with normal use. Which includes multimedia more often
than not.

Previously I had a HP DV6152eu, it went in for repair 5 times in about 9
months. The bios was also buggy so Linux was unstable and often
crashed / froze / needed me to force an unexpected reboot (a.k.a. unplug
and remove battery). I'm informed I got the tail end of the bad HP
laptops. Currently up for sale :-)

Thanks,
Christopher Joice

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:30 +0000, Danny King wrote:
> 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. 
>  
> Cheap, reliable and fantastic!
> 
> On 20/11/2007, John Cremona <john.cremona at gmail.com> wrote: 
>         I was wondering the same thing, and had considered one of the
>         Lenovo
>         Thinkpads (was IBM) as supplied by the Linux Emporium with
>         Ubuntu 
>         pre-installed.
>         
>         If anyone else has any experience with those it would be
>         useful to hear!
>         
>         John Cremona
>         
>         On 20/11/2007, martin <martin at stupids.org> wrote: 
>         > Hi all,
>         >
>         > I'm looking for advice on a good laptop to run Linux on.
>         >
>         > What I care about:
>         >
>         > - Small and light.
>         > - Fast.
>         > - Supported graphics without binary drivers. 
>         > - Supported wireless without binary drivers.
>         > - x86-64
>         >
>         > What I don't care about:
>         >
>         > - Disk size. (anything available these days would be more
>         than enough)
>         > - Audio / speaker quality. 
>         > - dvd/r/rw/blah features. (as long as it can read)
>         > - Price. (within reason)
>         > - Anything else I haven't mentioned.
>         >
>         > Any suggestions?
>         >
>         > --
>         > Martin.
>         >
>         >
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