[TriLUG] Laptop recommendations

[Matt Pusateri via TriLUG]

I happen to know that Lenovo T450’s and T460’s run RHEL and Fedora pretty well.  So I imagine that they’d run other distro’s well too.

Matt P.

> On Feb 19, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> A friend of mine is looking to buy a new laptop(*) with a budget of
> roughly 1000-1200 USD. Obviously, this device will run
> $YOUR_FAVORITE_DISTRO Linux. It's purpose is not to do heavy computing
> but mostly use it for what your grandma would use it for: i.e. browsing,
> listening to music, some minor photo editing and -but this is
> aspirational- maybe some video editing.
> 
> What are the recommendations for laptops these days and what are some
> common pitfalls that could prevent putting Linux on it?
> We've looked at System76 and I think he's looked at those offered by
> Costco but he was underwhelmed by all of them.
> 
> (*) chromebooks are not an option
> 
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