[Novalug] favorite new laptops?

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Dan Arico wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 23:29, Julia Christianson wrote:
>> Has anyone bought a laptop lately that "just works"?  I need 
>> to buy something to send to my sister in Oklahoma ... she's 
>> never run Linux for any period of time, but she knows she 
>> doesn't want Windows ;-). I'll probably put CentOS on it even 
>> though I know ubuntu would probably be better because (a) I'll 
>> be her sole support and I don't know ubuntu and (b) I know 
>> CentOS will be supported for some reasonable period of time.
>
> I bought a used Thinkpad T-30 and installed OpenSUSE. 
> Everything worked just fine, including wireless. The only 
> problem was a mostly used up battery, but I got a replacement 
> from Laptops for Less that works just fine.

 	I bought a reconditioned T-30 from IBM, which has run F7 
fine; but I have been wondering where to get a spare battery. 
Thanks for that tip!

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