Re: Laptop recommendations

I've had really good luck with the IBM series.  the T61 were really
good when I got it.  If you want to
pay the premium you can get a ZaReason or System76 though you'll
definitely pay more for
what you get.

I recently got a ZaReason and aside from a minor blonde moment on my
part it worked very
well out of the box.

Also.. I've never gotten good advice out of someone at Best Buy.  I
would take any advice
you get from there with a grain of salt.

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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:44 AM, James Velguth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/16/2011 9:51 PM, Eric MacAdie wrote:
>> I am thinking about getting a PC laptop and putting Linux on it. Does
>> anyone have any recommendations WRT which brand I should get?
>>
>> I was at Best Buy last week, and the guy I spoke with said he
>> recommended Asus.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eric MacAdie
>>
>
> When looking take a bootable CD with you to the store and try it on
> different laptops.  Thats what I did and decided upon a Toshiba
> Satellite L300 series.  There were some that did not work.  I now run
> Ubuntu from an external HD.  I removed the internal HD when loading and
> I have independent systems.  I had no problem at Fry's and the
> salesperson even helped me but Best buy yelled at me and told me to get
> that CD out of there. (besides the Best Buy greeter needed a shower
> badly and I could smell him 5 feet away) so its obvious I bought from Fry's.
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