[TriLUG] laptop shopping

[Ken M]

In my experience Lenovo's are very well supported linux wise.  I have
also used several Toshiba models and have been very happy with them.
Sorry I don't have more specific information.

I will say I have been debating the HP envy, but I am kind of used
laptop guy.  In fact meeting someone tomorrow about an 2 year old dell
that they got malwared up and don't want to pay to fix so I am going to
bring an ubuntu disk and if it boots right snag it up for a deal.
Normally I run Arch but for a quick does it work test I find Ubuntu to
be a quick too.


I am a cheap skate like that.  

Ken

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 08:18 -0500, Carl Crider wrote:
> The Lenovo T430 has everything you are looking for. I use one for work;
> running Red Hat 6, and several VM's. The only complaint is that the HDMI
> connection uses a "displayport" cable. Since Amazon started selling it's
> own cables, I sourced one cheaply enough.
> 
> I'll add that I use several live Linux flavors, with no video or wifi
> issues.
>  On Feb 5, 2014 12:02 AM, "William Sutton" <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> > Any recommendations for a laptop that has suspend-to-disk (hibernate to
> > disk) and Just Works (TM)?  I used to love the feature on my old Sony Vaio
> > PCG-505GX, but it's been out of date for a decade, and my current
> > MacBookPro (which doesn't have it) is showing signs of advanced age.
> >
> > Preferences:
> > 1. small-ish (17" is too big... 12"-14" would be nice)
> > 2. supports suspend-to-disk under Linux
> > 3. decent video card (NV would be nice)
> > 4. wireless works under Linux without too much trouble
> >
> > I like Sony and I like Lenovo, but I'm not stuck on either one.  I refuse
> > to use Compaq/HP/Dell.
> >
> > Looking forward to the suggestions....
> >
> > William Sutton
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