[clug] Linux Laptop Machine Compatibility Gold Standard

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Hal <hal.ashburner at gmail.com> writes:

> Last time I was in the market for a laptop. The IBM T42 was the the
> thing used & recommended by linux hackers as having the best support
> out of the box. It surely did, everything just worked with a knoppix
> disk. (Support actually has deteriorated over the years because ATI
> opened their specs so the free drivers were re-written and are
> considerably less usable nowadays  but who cares? The laptop is dying
> anyway and nobody uses radeon mobility 7500 cards anymore. Stuff
> happens.)
>
> Is there a similar machine that is used and recommend by more kernel
> hackers than any other nowadays? Or is it much of a muchness? Perhaps
> you pays your money and takes your pick?

I've found that business-oriented laptops (like the Thinkpads, etc.)
generally cope better as they're less likely to have non-standard
hardware.

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