[PLUG] Linux Notebook recommendations

[Bruce]

On 06/21/2010 11:56 AM, Mike Connors wrote:
>> Could somebody please recommend, based on the personal experience, a
>> decent notebook with the following
>> characteristics:
>> 1. 15 - 17" Display
>> 2. Turion II or less desirable Athlon II dual core CPU. Quad core is
>> fine as long as it's AMD
>> 3. 1 GB Ethernet controller
>> 4. Wi-Fi Wireless 802.11b/g/n controller which is known to work with
>> Linux without excessive headaches.
>> 5. nVidia integrated graphic controller. In the worst case scenario I
>> can live with ATI Radeon.
>> 6. At least 4GB DDR3 RAM expandable up to 8GB. I don't want to have
>> older and slower DDR2 RAM.
>> 7. Preferably in black or other non-flashy matte colors. I don't like
>> that bright and cheesy silverish goldish el'cheapo glossy colors.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any hints or recommendations.
>>
>>      
> I have good luck running diff Linux distros (*buntu, Debian, CentOS,
> OpenSuse) on my Lenovo Thinkpad T60. I bought it refurbished in '07 and it
> still runs great.
>
> I've used both of these sites for getting help w. installing and running
> Linux on Thinkpads:
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html
>
> And I just discovered that the Lenovo web site has what appears to be very
> good support and documentation.
> "We are committed to providing our customers with information to assist you
> in utilizing the Linux operating system on various personal computing
> systems."
> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-48nt8d
>
> Good luck w. finding a suitable notebook to run Linux on for school!
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I would like to second the Lenovo experience.  I called their tech 
support and asked for a recovery DVD as I wanted to reclaim the 
harddrive real estate their partition took up.

Not only did I get the DVDs, they remembered talking to me during a 
later phone call and inquired about the Linux installation and stability.

Two Lenovos, running Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora 12, all x-64...very few 
glitches.

Bruce