What's the Best Laptop for Linux???
I'm thinking of buying a new laptop. I want to buy a laptop that works perfectly under Linux (Suse, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora my favourites, if you have any other suggestions please say).
I'm mainly into Acer Laptops, I'm having a beautiful experience on my Acer TravelMate 290 with Suse 10.1 but it's time to upgrade to a new laptop with better hardware specs. This is a list of what I want: - Preferably Acer - Has built-in WLAN, LAN, Bluetooth, Infrared - CD/DVD writer - A good graphic card that supports XGL desktop effects (nVidia, ATI) - Long battery life - Not super expensive, has to be less than or equal to $1400. - I don't want a huge laptop, I also don't want a tiny laptop. - All this hardware should be supported with Linux It would be nice to have: - Built-in webcam on the monitor that works in Linux - Projector or TV out Thank you in advance. |
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I'm having a good time with my acer aspire 3000 - everything goes. Personally, I'd pick nvidia over ati ... however, I understand the intel have open-source drivers for their 3D accelerated boards. (Corrections anyone?) What I did, was I gave the salesman my price range, then said I'd buy the best laptop which would run this linux (and produced an Ubuntu live CD). I went from store to store and quickly found one which would let me reboot their display machines from the CD. That store made the sale. |
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