On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:41:25PM -0600, 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. :) > I bought an Asus laptop (Core 2 Duo, 2.33Ghz) 4 years ago and it is still my main audio production station on Linux. There was some weirdage with the ATA support; a SATA drive would have been a better choice, but that wasn't their fault, it was mine in configuring the machine. I also have an Asus EEE in which everything "just works", better than any hardware I've ever had... probably because Asus used to actually ship the EEE with Linux. I have used ThinkPads before, and they do indeed work well on Linux, but I absolutely HATE HATE HATE that damned nurple. I will never buy a Thinkpad again. Gimme a trackpad or trackball or a real mouse any day, and please, no nurple. http://xkcd.com/243/ -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
