[TriLUG] Laptop recommendations

[Jeremy Davis via TriLUG]

In that price range I recommend a Samsung ultrabook. My theory is with all
the Android and Chromebook devices they manufacture their Ultrabooks would
be Linux friendly. My theory was either correct or I was very lucky. It was
the easiest Linux Mint installation ever and it has worked great for years.



On Sun, 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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