[LAU] Linux Laptops?

[Jim Eastman]

I agree with the positive comments about Lenovo laptops and figured
I'd throw in my quick vote of praise as well. I've been running on a
ThinkPad T410 for almost a year now, running Ubuntu, and I've had no
problems with that. From battery status to interfacing with my USB
audio and midi devices, it's all worked well.

-Jim

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Robin Gareus <robin at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 11:41 PM, Josh Lawrence wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> After getting scorched by purchasing two laptops with almost zero
>> Linux support (battery status? what battery?), I have decided to go
>> looking for a laptop that is sold by a company that supports Linux.
>> I'm looking for any pointers to companies that sell Laptops that run
>> Linux here in the US.  (I'm already familiar with System76.)  Bonus
>> points if you've done business with them and have praise or warnings
>> to go along with the pointers.  Feel free to shill for your own
>> company if you want, just make sure if you recommend a laptop that
>> Linux can read the damn battery status.  :)
>
> LOL, Are you serious? I'd rather expect more audio-related constraints
> here :)
>
> IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad: They got about everything right:
> from the inside: hardware IRQ routing: 1394 and at least 1 USB IRQ is
> not shared with other devices - some models even allow to re-assign
> these in the BIOS: that's great for connecting external audio interfaces
> and achieving low latency;
> the VGA (or DVI) out works OOTB on GNU/Linux; as does Wifi (double check
> options when configuring/buying), suspend/resume; heck it even reports
> temperature of the battery and allows to set high/low water-marks for
> battery charge cycles.
>
> to the outside: the keyboard and mouse-buttons have a healthy
> press-depth and perfectly balanced resistance. There's even water drain
> in the keyboard(!), very very robust casing, easily replaceable HDD,
> almost no fan noise, etc.
>
> On top of it: they do have low power consumption (long battery life) and
> are "green" in terms of environment and recycling. Besides: GNU/Linux
> support is amazing: thinkwiki.org
>
> I do like the screen contrast, although the only disadvantage I can
> think of is that it's sometimes not bright enough for a green on black
> terminal in direct sunlight :)  Oh and the built-in speaker (at least on
> this X60s and also on the T401) is total crap.
>
> Alas it's not a cheap solution, OTOH it really pays off.
>
> Check the list-archive this is a recurring subject: just a few weeks ago
> there was this "Firewire linuxaudio laptops, recomendations?" thread.
>
> 2c,
> robin
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