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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:09 PM, David Tomaschik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com" target="_blank">david@systemoverlord.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Not sure if it's still available, but my work laptop is a Lenovo X220 -- highly recommended. In fact, my next personal laptop purchase will undoubtedly be a Lenovo Thinkpad. (X or T series.)
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<div>I currently run Debian on my personal laptop -- a Dell Latitude E5420, and it has a few quirks, but probably nothing that would be apparent to an everyday user. (I have trouble with the ExpressCard slot, getting HDMI out to work the way I wanted took some tweaking.)</div>
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<div>I had a Dell E6520 with my previous employer and it was a bit bizarre in the way that the two video cards were used, and </div>
<div>it proved to be quite the PITA to get it work correctly with both cards while in the docking station. ... and the keyboard was extremely cheap, IMO. it did not leave a strong positive impression with me towards Dell gear... </div>
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<div>Levovo are good choices. I had a T400 that survived being flat dropped on the Grady Hospital parking deck (fortunately it was off). </div>
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<div>One thing to always check on laptops is that the power jack is on a pigtail instead of being soldered to the motherboard - much easier to fix when the power jack fails in the future. Make certain that a service manual is available that tells your how to get </div>
<div>the machine open to work on it. A quick way to check is to go to Ebay and search for a power jack for the computer in question,</div>
<div>which will allow you to easily seen what kind of connector it is using... </div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>David Ritchie</div>
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