[ale] laptop advice needed

[Richard Bronosky]

I never got sleep/suspend working on the T60 they issued me. After 9
months of tinkering I traded it for a MacBook Pro.

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
> IBM LENOVO THINKPAD T60 DUO CORE 2.00GHZ XP PRO WI-FI - $250 -
> That's a good price on a laptop that works well running Linux.  I ran RHEL 5
> on one for about a year.
> -Scott
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a Dell Latitude D620 for work. Fedora 10. If I close the lid,
>> it suspends.
>>
>> More importantly, when I open the lid it resumes!
>>
>> The wireless required that I load the firmware into /lib/firmware.
>> Once done, it works well. It has reassociation issues as the AP's seem
>> to hiccup and when moving around campus but a quick script with a
>> panel button to stop NetworkManager, stop networking, unload the
>> wireless module and restart it all and it works fine for me.
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>> > Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The only Linux laptop advice I can give is buy one that comes with
>> >> some form of linux. Otherwise you're likely to spend months on
>> >> sleep/suspend, wireless, and video issues. It doesn't have to come
>> >> with your distro of choice. If the OEM got Linux to work, so can you.
>> >>
>> >
>> > You have to be careful. Sometimes the OEM has little experience with
>> > linux and didn't really get it to work. Just google for eee pc wireless
>> > and look at the complaints.
>> >
>> > I think Dell has done a good job supporting Ubuntu on their laptops. You
>> > can get the Inspiron 15N ($374), Mini 9 ($264), or 1330N ($834) with an
>> > integrated webcam. You can configure the 15N pretty nicely for around
>> > $500.
>> >
>> > http://dell.com/ubuntu
>> >
>> > All the best,
>> > Brian Pitts
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