[PLUG] Probably will return my system 76 Gazelle

[Tomas Kuchta]

I have been using various Thinkpads with SuSE and Ubuntu for well over
decade - I love the keyboards (with the exception of 2014 models),
durability and trouble free Linux computing.

Current (2015) X250 and T450 have both internal and external batteries 
- meaning that you can change the external battery without shutting it
down. That is realy handy on long flights.

Tomas

On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 05:53 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> 
> > Suggestions on an alternative laptop?  Keys are the first
> > requirement
> > (along with Linux, of course.)  And that Dell mentioned here a
> > while ago
> > with a non-replaceable battery seems to me to be a bit stupid.  But
> > maybe I
> > can be convinced otherwise with suitable arguments.
> 
> Denis,
> 
>    I have a Dell Latitude E5410 (now replaced with the E5510 or
> later) and it
> has worked flawlessly for ~4 years. There was a piece of plastic
> peeking out
> of the bottom of the keyboard when it arrived and a call to tech
> support
> fixed that ... the tech was here in a couple of days. Turned out to
> need to
> be pushed back in place; the keyboard was fine. He left the
> replacement
> heyboard for me.
> 
>    I have also a Dell 2100 netbook that I use for communications,
> note-taking
> during meetings, and looking up technical references when I don't
> need the
> horsepower of the larger laptop.
> 
>    My experiences with Dell have all been positive and when I must
> replace
> either system I'll definitely see if that company still makes
> portables.
> 
>    Now, another suggestion for your consideration. A few years ago I
> bought
> my sister a Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop (15" screen, 64-bit AMD CPU,
> 2G RAM,
> etc.) She's no longer able to see well enough to use it and returned
> it to
> me since she's sold her house and  moving to in independent living
> facility.
> It has a virus-infected win7 on it and is waiting for me to install
> Slackware-14.1 (or, I might just wait until 14.2 is out and install
> that).
> Since I don't need a third laptop sitting here I'd consider selling
> it.
> Might this meet your needs? It ain't the System76, but it's in good
> condition.
> 
> Rich
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