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On 02/14/2011 11:41 PM, Josh Lawrence wrote:

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> Hey all,

>

> After getting scorched by purchasing two laptops with almost zero

> Linux support (battery status? what battery?), I have decided to go

> looking for a laptop that is sold by a company that supports Linux.

> I'm looking for any pointers to companies that sell Laptops that run

> Linux here in the US.  (I'm already familiar with System76.)  Bonus

> points if you've done business with them and have praise or warnings

> to go along with the pointers.  Feel free to shill for your own

> company if you want, just make sure if you recommend a laptop that

> Linux can read the damn battery status.  :)

LOL, Are you serious? I'd rather expect more audio-related constraints

here :)
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad: They got about everything right:

from the inside: hardware IRQ routing: 1394 and at least 1 USB IRQ is

not shared with other devices - some models even allow to re-assign

these in the BIOS: that's great for connecting external audio interfaces

and achieving low latency;

the VGA (or DVI) out works OOTB on GNU/Linux; as does Wifi (double check

options when configuring/buying), suspend/resume; heck it even reports

temperature of the battery and allows to set high/low water-marks for

battery charge cycles.
to the outside: the keyboard and mouse-buttons have a healthy

press-depth and perfectly balanced resistance. There's even water drain

in the keyboard(!), very very robust casing, easily replaceable HDD,

almost no fan noise, etc.
On top of it: they do have low power consumption (long battery life) and

are "green" in terms of environment and recycling. Besides: GNU/Linux

support is amazing: thinkwiki.org
I do like the screen contrast, although the only disadvantage I can

think of is that it's sometimes not bright enough for a green on black

terminal in direct sunlight :)  Oh and the built-in speaker (at least on

this X60s and also on the T401) is total crap.
Alas it's not a cheap solution, OTOH it really pays off.
Check the list-archive this is a recurring subject: just a few weeks ago

there was this "Firewire linuxaudio laptops, recomendations?" thread.
2c,

robin

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