[LAU] Linux Laptops?

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:29:52PM -1000, david wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I guess some people actually do like it.
> 
> ThinkPad + focus_on_mouse + typing anything with a 'g' or 'h' in it == TROUBLE.

Didn't have any trouble typing those letters. What do you mean by 
"focus_on_mouse"?

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