A sort of works list might be better.
Generally Toshiba is a good start.
I have tried Linux Toshiba's and they generally work out of the box.
Fujitsu works as well and they host a user group that answers questions on Linux. I my self have a li2727 that works well the only problem I had was turning on the wifi adapter.
The general rule is the closer you get to the bleeding edge the less likely it is to work with Linux. The upside the dusty today's special might easily out perform the bosses super duper Vista machine (know this to be true my boss has fat Fujitsu and it's goes like a gazelle on Diazepam)
Good luck with your search
Any further questions you know where to ask.
Regards
Ray
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 19:32 +0200, Miguel Angel Perez wrote:
Hi William,
Glad to know that things are finally working ^^, maybe when F11 gets out you could try it and see if it gives you some better support for compiz than F10. At least the kernel will be newer and then the hw support should be better too.
When thinking to purchase a new laptop a good place to start is : http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html
Then select the brand you will trust your money to and look at the latest supported models. Once you have selected a laptop take some days to google around looking for incompatibilities with linux or for unhappy owners of that model. You can also post the details here, with some look you will find someone that knows something about it :)
2009/6/4 William Henry <whenry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Miguel,
Just thought I'd give you an update. I've been running Fedora 10 for several weeks now with few problems. I think the biggest issue was the video card in the lenovo and I will make sure that I look into video the next time I purchase a laptop. When I disable compiz many of the issues go away. It would be nice to have some of the compiz features but under the current hardware it seems T61/Fedora 10 with compiz is not an option. (I just see memory creep and CPU utilization crawl upwards to where it's not usable and then crashes.)
But I'm now using F10 on my T61 in a fairly stable way for several weeks.
If anyone can give me a recommendation for a good laptop spec. for my next purchase please let me know. Thanks.
Best,
William
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> > I've seen others have this problem and I've seen a BZ regarding it. Its the "mouse still moves but can't do anything with the keyboard or mouse input' problem. Requires a hardware reboot.
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WH: I'm running RHEL which is more stable. But I like to do other work on Fedora and was hoping Fedora 10 was more stable. I realize there are a lot of different hardware platforms out there and it is difficult to support. I'm a bit surpprised because there are so many Lenova T6x around I thought that it would have been tested more and there more stable.
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