15 Feb
2011
15 Feb
'11
2:15 a.m.
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(a)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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