Re: [LAU] Linux Laptops?

Am 15.02.2011 02:14, schrieb Jim Eastman:
> I agree with the positive comments about Lenovo laptops

I can recommend the thinkpad also

BUT: dont let yourself be fooled by the Lenovo-mark alone. Lenovo also
offers cheaper Notebooks. I had a N200 that was quite OK for day-to-day
use but certainly not the best machine under the sun for audio-work.

Get a Thinkpad, a real Thinkpad. If you find them too expensive buy a
used one. A 2-year old T60 is by far better than a brand new cheapo-model.

> and figured
> I'd throw in my quick vote of praise as well. I've been running on a
> ThinkPad T410 for almost a year now, running Ubuntu, and I've had no
> problems with that. From battery status to interfacing with my USB
> audio and midi devices, it's all worked well.
>
> -Jim
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Robin Gareus<robin@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> On 02/14/2011 11:41 PM, 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. :)
>>
>> LOL, Are you serious? I'd rather expect more audio-related constraints
>> here :)
>>
>> IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad: They got about everything right:
>> from the inside: hardware IRQ routing: 1394 and at least 1 USB IRQ is
>> not shared with other devices - some models even allow to re-assign
>> these in the BIOS: that's great for connecting external audio interfaces
>> and achieving low latency;
>> the VGA (or DVI) out works OOTB on GNU/Linux; as does Wifi (double check
>> options when configuring/buying), suspend/resume; heck it even reports
>> temperature of the battery and allows to set high/low water-marks for
>> battery charge cycles.
>>
>> to the outside: the keyboard and mouse-buttons have a healthy
>> press-depth and perfectly balanced resistance. There's even water drain
>> in the keyboard(!), very very robust casing, easily replaceable HDD,
>> almost no fan noise, etc.
>>
>> On top of it: they do have low power consumption (long battery life) and
>> are "green" in terms of environment and recycling. Besides: GNU/Linux
>> support is amazing: thinkwiki.org
>>
>> I do like the screen contrast, although the only disadvantage I can
>> think of is that it's sometimes not bright enough for a green on black
>> terminal in direct sunlight :) Oh and the built-in speaker (at least on
>> this X60s and also on the T401) is total crap.
>>
>> Alas it's not a cheap solution, OTOH it really pays off.
>>
>> Check the list-archive this is a recurring subject: just a few weeks ago
>> there was this "Firewire linuxaudio laptops, recomendations?" thread.
>>
>> 2c,
>> robin
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