[ale] laptop advice needed

[Scott McBrien]

On May 23, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>  
wrote:

> Scott McBrien wrote:
>> Some of the sleep/suspend stuff on the Lenovo line is settings in the
>> bios, a dash of the desktop software, and a pinch of kernel.  RHEL  
>> 5.2
>> and 5.3 work well, as do Fedora, which isn't surprising considering
>> the Red Hat corporate standard is Lenovo Laptops.
>>
>> That said, my MacBook also, "just works", but was significantly more
>> $pendy.
>
> Can you define 'just works' because there are a number of things on my
> macbook pro that don't work with the standard kernel.  I have to  
> build a
> kernel to get sound, backlit keyboard and such working.

Um, OS-X, so just works.  I run all my Linux distros as VMs.  Sure I  
burn 4G of disk space for printer support, but as of yet haven't found  
one that doesn't work.

>
>
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> On May 23, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>>>>
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