[Novalug] favorite new laptops?

[Anthony Soucek]

I should mention that the proprietary wireless driver was a
no-brainer, you just have to give ubuntu the permission to install the
proprietary software through the gui, and it did it all automatically
(as if I were a stupid windows user- (Whew, thank goodness that not
true, well not completely).

On 11/3/07, Anthony Soucek <monkeywrenchit at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want to go cheap, I got an Acer 3860 and it runs great with
> Ubuntu, you need a proprietary driver for the wireless card and there
> is a minor config tweak to get the speakers  turned on, but I was
> amazed how easy it was to install ubuntu 7.10 (<$400) 512 MB ram and a
> 70GB HD, Beautiful screen (the highly reflective kind) but short
> battery life.
>
> On 11/1/07, Beartooth <karhunhammas at lserv.com> wrote:
> > 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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