Re: Best Laptop Experience with Fedora

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On 26 April 2010 07:51, Dale Dellutri <daledellutri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Edmon Begoli <ebegoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I am thinking of buying a Laptop to run Fedora 12/13/ ... on it.
>>
>> I am member of the Fedora project and I want to have a laptop only for
>> development and testing of the code, packages and new releases on it.
>>
>> So far I had mixed luck with wireless cards/drivers and video cards,
>> so I want to
>> ask community of Fedora users:
>>
>> what Laptop in below $600 or $700 would they recommend as the machine
>> with the best Fedora experience.
>>
>> I am also looking for the easy hard drive swap in and out solution,
>> so that I can swap complete distros by swapping hard drives
>> (I have dual boots and USB but I find hard drive swapping more
>> convenient for what I am doing. I can explain my motivation in more
>> details if needed)
>
> Your only stated requirements are price, the ability to do development,
> and the ability to swap disks.  Given those requirements, I'd get a
> refurbished Dell laptop from Dell at:
>   http://www.dfsdirectsales.com
> You can get a laptop with no operating system.  Disk removal/replacement is
> fairly easy on the Dell D-series laptops, just a screw or two.  You'll
> probably
> want to buy a second carrier.  Or, I guess you could boot from USB dirves.
>
> I got my current Dell D630 that way, on which I've installed F12.  The
> wireless,
> as well as everything lese, works well.
>
> This is just one suggestion.  Just about any laptop would work.  Just make
> sure that the NetworkManager can handle the wireless card and that disk
> removal is easy.
>

I have used a Thinkpad SL series with Fedora 12 with no problems.
NetworkManager plays wonderfully nice too. :) I think it cost about
CAD 800 but probably there was some kind of a savings deal.

> --
> Dale Dellutri

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