<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>The last four notebook computers and the last five desktop class computers have all been some flavor of HP. They have all worked great for me.<br>My current primary notebook is an Hp Envy, which is a little pricey at slightly north of $800, but I got a low end discontinuing HP for about $400 for my son to use at school this summer.<br>The key things in my choices have been, is the price/perfomance/functionality meet my needs and, does everything work with the live trial usb stick work on it.<br>I've been using suse for my linux distro for years, and hardware compatibility has been one of the reasons I keep using it. That said, I couldn't imagine buying anything without being able to try it out with my distro in the store before I take it home.<br>My usual first stop is Costco for this. They have no restocking fees if I do have problem, unlike most other stores that sell computer related items<br>-jt<br><br><br><br/><div style='clear: both;'><HTML><HEAD>
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<BODY>James Taylor<BR>The East Cobb Group, Inc.<BR>678-697-9420<BR>james.taylor@eastcobbgroup.com<BR><A href="http://www.eastcobbgroup.com">http://www.eastcobbgroup.com</A><BR><BR></BODY></HTML></div><br/>>>> Matthew <simontek@gmail.com> 03/12/13 12:41 AM >>><br>Ok, I love the Thinkpad and Elitebooks. But lets get something straight here. Both of those cost north of $1500. You can get a great ASUS for under $1k. Most under $750. That's why I mentioned it. <br><br>"He's not a techie, so compatibility is important. I think he uses it for basic things - pictures, email, web, etc" Most people that fall in this category can't fathom spending over $1000 for a laptop these days. That said, Most laptops these days have great compatibility with Linux. <br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Barlow, Jim D <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.d.barlow@intel.com" target="_blank">jim.d.barlow@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Mathew stated:<br> <div class="im">> I have an asus k73 and a b53. The k73, worked fine until i changed the internal wifi card to an intel one, then it worked great. I have said it before, the asus laptops are great, to my complete surprise.<br> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Doug Hall <<a href="mailto:doughalldev@gmail.com">doughalldev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > A coworker, whom I switched to Ubuntu a little over a year ago, is looking for a nice new linux laptop. I know the Lenovos are usually a pretty good choice. Does anyone else have a laptop they're thrilled with, which will > run Mint or Ubuntu? He's not a techie, so compatibility is important. I think he uses it for basic things - pictures, email, web, etc.<br> <br> </div>I get a Lenovo ThinkPad, an HP Elitebook, and a Dell Latitude each year at work. They all work great. When you get into the consumer grade stuff, things can be trickier. For me, I found Ubuntu a little flakey (but improving) on how the BCM wireless is supported. It kept breaking with updates.<br> <br> I switched that neighbor to Fedora, and she is happy with the low end laptop now.<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> - Jim<br> </font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> _______________________________________________<br> Ale mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>SimonTek<br>912-398-6704<br> <p>If this is an unsolicited spam message, please click this link to report it: <a href="http://control.eastcobbgroup.com:49285/contents/spamreport.shtml?rptid=24672&srvid=16vl15t">Report Spam</a></p><p> </p></body></html>