Re: IBM laptop hardware

If your business use has  anything to do with the military, the new lenovo's are a no go.  They may be made in mexico, but since it's a china owned company you cannot have them anywhere near military presence.  If this is not a concern of yours, then I know that they do very well with linux.

-Jonathan Lindsey
Network Engineer
3D Research Corporation



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] on behalf of Tim Price
Sent: Mon 2/11/2008 11:32 AM
To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
Subject: Re: [NMLUG] IBM laptop hardware
 
I have a couple of different models of IBM ThinkPads that I have Linux  
on. One is a really old Pentium 1 or so and the other an old PIII  
1GHz. Both of those were the easiest laptops to install Linux on of  
the many laptops I have installed Linux on.

The few Windows laptops we have left running at the office are also  
IBM ThinkPads. One staff member uses her laptop as her main computer.  
She has it with her constituently, and it gets a lot of abuse. Of all  
the Windows laptops I had bought her in the past, the IBM Thinkpads  
have by far been the most rugged, reliable and trouble free. I now use  
one of her old Thinkpads for testing webpages on MS IE. That laptop is  
about 6 years old,its been put through Hell, and it still looks great  
and works great.

I don't know what the quality of the Thinkpads are since Lenovo took  
over, but I'm now only buying Apple MacBooks and MacBook Pros and  
running Windows in parallel with Mac OS X. You can also run Linux in  
parallel with OS X on MacBooks and MacBook Pros.


On Feb 11, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Lindsey wrote:

> I own a dell vostro 1500.  I'm very happy with it.  It's a 2.2ghz  
> with the NVIDIA video card.  I purchased it through the small  
> business division (all you need is a social security number which  
> will be your tax id).  I purchased mine with XP pro, and I'm  
> currently running Fedora 8 64 bit on it.  I just ordered from new  
> egg a 4gb memory kit which will max it out.  I wouldn't get the  
> extended battery again if given the opportunity, but I do like the  
> higher quality screen.  Make sure you get the intel wireless card  
> instead of the broadcom wireless (built in).  So far the only thing  
> in linux I've had real problems with is the integrated webcam...  
> which really isn't that big of a deal.
>
> I'm a huge dell fan for open source compatibility.  They seem to  
> make sure their hardware is supported for linux.  I've owned HP's  
> and Sony's and I do not like them, they seem to be a pain in the  
> butt.  Yea they may be a lil pricey in the long run, but with small  
> business the warranty seems to be very good, and I'm happy with them.
>
> -Jonathan Lindsey
> Network Engineer
> 3D Research Corporation
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] on behalf of Nick Frost
> Sent: Mon 2/11/2008 9:38 AM
> To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
> Subject: [NMLUG] IBM laptop hardware
>
> I'm curious if anyone here has recommendations on business laptops
> they've had success with in a work environment,
> for use with MS Windows and/or Linux.
>
> Thanks,
> -Nick
>
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