[LAU] Linux Laptops?

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:41:25PM -0600, 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.  :)
> 
> I bought an Asus laptop (Core 2 Duo, 2.33Ghz) 4 years ago and it is
> still my main audio production station on Linux. There was some
> weirdage with the ATA support; a SATA drive would have been a better
> choice, but that wasn't their fault, it was mine in configuring the
> machine.
> 
> I also have an Asus EEE in which everything "just works", better than
> any hardware I've ever had... probably because Asus used to actually
> ship the EEE with Linux.

A friend of mine's family has a number of Asus EEE PCs, they all work
very nicely with Linux.

> I have used ThinkPads before, and they do indeed work well on Linux,
> but I absolutely HATE HATE HATE that damned nurple. I will never buy
> a Thinkpad again. Gimme a trackpad or trackball or a real mouse any
> day, and please, no nurple.

Decades ago, at a previous employment, I borrowed a Thinkpad laptop to
take notes at a meeting. It had the IBM Trackpoint in the keyboard. I
used the laptop for about 45 minutes, went back to my desktop machine
(also an IBM, but no Trackpoint in the keyboard) - and found my fingers
automatically reaching for the Trackpoint. They are incredibly
efficient. Sorry you didn't like it.

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David
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