[clug] Linux Laptop Machine Compatibility Gold Standard

[Daniel Pittman]

Adam Baxter <voltagex at voltagex.org> writes:

> As far as I know the Lenovo laptops are still pretty good.

Mostly: there non-ThinkPad models are a bit of a mixed bag, and don't have the
same level of support and functionality as the real deal.  Sadly, that now
includes at least one model with the ThinkPad logo and name stuck to it.

That said, go to http://thinkwiki.org/ and you should get a solid picture of
the state of support for the hardware you are looking at.

> My Dell Mini 9 has also been pretty good.
> Stay away from anything with the Intel GMA500.

*nod*

Sadly, in terms of support you are probably better off with NVIDIA (spit) and
their binary driver than with almost any other choice right now, unless you
can find a decent non-GMA500 machine somewhere.

The final choice is Apple hardware: because there are so few models, and they
have so little variation between them, they usually have fairly solid support
shortly after release.

        Daniel

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