On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:29:52PM -1000, david wrote: > Ken Restivo wrote: >> 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. > > A friend of mine's family has a number of Asus EEE PCs, they all work > very nicely 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. > > Decades ago, at a previous employment, I borrowed a Thinkpad laptop to > take notes at a meeting. It had the IBM Trackpoint in the keyboard. I > used the laptop for about 45 minutes, went back to my desktop machine > (also an IBM, but no Trackpoint in the keyboard) - and found my fingers > automatically reaching for the Trackpoint. They are incredibly > efficient. Sorry you didn't like it. > I guess some people actually do like it. ThinkPad + focus_on_mouse + typing anything with a 'g' or 'h' in it == TROUBLE. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
