I agree with the positive comments about Lenovo laptops and figured I'd throw in my quick vote of praise as well. I've been running on a ThinkPad T410 for almost a year now, running Ubuntu, and I've had no problems with that. From battery status to interfacing with my USB audio and midi devices, it's all worked well. -Jim On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
