laptop for linux?

See if you can find a S/H IBM machine.... The T41/42 should be pretty cheap.
I used to have a T43 and they are built like tanks, pretty slim and light, and use decent hardware, and are well supported so no compatability problems.

I have a T60 now and run RedHat (for work reasons) alongside XP, and it is great :D
 
we have an acer at the moment with a 1.7ghz cpu, 1gig ram, and an 80gb HDD for 295. although you'd have to travel a fair way. and the offer ends today :(
 
Lenovo=IBM= win

Acer laptops are plain nasty. I'm also not a massive fan of HP ones.

I'd perhaps type the model # of the Lenovo into a few forums for your chosen Linux distro and see what comes back about compatability.

All I can say is that out of all the lappies I have tried, I wouldn't have anything (Other than a mac) over a Lenovo/ IBM just for pure build quality and the fact they use decent hardware.
 
i've had a few laptops in my time at work, Toshiba,Acer,HP,IBM and Lenovo. Linux would run on all of them some work arounds were required for most. By far the best though was the IBM/Lenovo stuff, i've used R32, R40, R50, R60 and R61 all have worked really well no driver issues that i can remember and the machines last really well.
You can get an R61i for around £450+vat new but may well be over budget.
 
A friend of mine had trouble loading xp/some Linux distros on her HP laptop. Even disabling AHCI diddn't do anything. In the end she had to settle for a vista/opensuse dual boot.


On the other hand my lenovo n200 took to it straight away after i disabled AHCI in the bios.
 
Another vote for IBM based machines in Linux - IBM have been failry fervent supporters of Linux from the early days and most of their hardware has good driver support.
 
Mr_Orange said:
A friend of mine had trouble loading xp/some Linux distros on her HP laptop. Even disabling AHCI diddn't do anything. In the end she had to settle for a vista/opensuse dual boot.


On the other hand my lenovo n200 took to it straight away after i disabled AHCI in the bios.
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Girls like linux?
 
I have an old Armada e500 running Arch (pIII 650 which flew with 256, now has a ridiculous 512) - that should do the job for probably < £40... Although it is a brick and there is no battery life to speak of!! ;)
 
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