On 02/14/2011 11:41 PM, Josh Lawrence wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
