Thinkpad to the dark side

[Net Llama!]

On 06/04/2006 02:10 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> From: "Tim Wunder" <tim at thewunders.org>
>> On Sunday 04 June 2006 1:16 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
>> > On 06/04/2006 08:40 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
>> > > http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/
>> > >
>> > > Lenovo sucks.
>> >
>> > I've been saying this for months.  lenovo has zero linux clues.
>> 
>> I, for one, bought my last Lenovo PC. Twice they've pushed delivery out on the
>> simplest of low end PCs purchased for my company. Never again.
> 
> So what brands should a guy buy these days?
> 
> For quality, service, price, Linux cluefulness.

Sadly, its slim pickings if you really want a company that cares about 
Linux at all.

HP has alot of linux clues, but only on the workstation & server side. 
Desktop & mobile products are all winders, all the time.  Dell only 
cares about Linux when some prospective customer with alot of $$$ wants 
it, and that's never on mobile (laptops) devices.  Apple's notebooks 
seem to run Linux well, but you're obviously not going to get any Linux 
support from them.  Toshiba & SONY have zero linux clues, and to make 
matters worse, most of their notebooks are highly proprietary beasts, so 
you're likely to run into a ton of bizarre problems in Linux-land.

None of this is to say that you can't run Linux on most notebooks, but 
there's really very little out there which is going to work completely 
with a high degree of confidence in Linux.  All I can suggest is go to 
linux-laptop.net and see what the brave soles who have done on their 
own, and hope for the best.

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