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>
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</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>
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I switched that neighbor to Fedora, and she is happy with the low end laptop now.<br>
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