[PLUG] Linux Notebook recommendations

[Mike Connors]

>
> 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!