[lug] Laptop recommendations for Linux?

[Kevin Kempter]

I have a Dell Covet M6400 and I love it. I've run ubuntu & Fedora for the past 
18mos or so on it (mostly Fedora), I'm now running 64bit RHEL workstation 
since I need stability over eye-candy.

The screen wont fold flat but fairly close. It comes with a full 3.0Gz dual 
core chip (not a mobile chip) or a 2.4 Gz quad core - I went wit the dual 
core.

It's RedHat certified, I have 12G of ram, It's expandable to 16G
plus it has a raid card and 2 internal SATA drives 
(I'm running 2 - 500G 7200rpm drives)

The keyboard is backlit as well and it has a 1920x1200 17" screen.


If you can justify the cost (or dont care) then I would highly recommend it.

However it certianly doesn't meet your desire to run out to a local shop and 
grab something the same day.
 
/Kevin




> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 22:43 -0600, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> > 2) Any opinions of Asus, Acer, etc?  I've been avoiding Dell and Gateway
> > for historical reasons and despite having a beloved six year old HP, I
> > find their current trackpads awful.
>
> I've had an Acer Aspire laptop for the past 5 years and love it.  It's
> starting to heat up underneath (I leave it running 24/7 so I can access
> it from work) so my wife got me one of those laptop cooler pads for it.
> Other than that, it's worked fine.  The only thing it has that I never
> checked if it worked are a modem and bluetooth.  5 years ago wireless on
> it was a problem.  These days, it works just fine with NetworkManager at
> any coffee shop.
>
> I avoid Dell out of principle.  Worked for them once.  Not a nice
> company.