Laptops

[Harrison Conlin]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM, squareyes <squareyes at internode.on.net> wrote:
> David Ryder wrote:
>> Neither would accept my offer of "I will buy it if you guarantee my
>> money back if it does not work with Ubuntu (8.04). They would not as
>> they then said "They were made to work with Windows XP/Vista".

Sorry to say but i'm not surprised by this. I'm sure they wouldn't
mind you putting in a live cd just to check that the core things work.
I went into a Harvey Norman where one of the sales staff had a Ubuntu
8.10 live cd with him and booted it up (Although in that same store by
a different staff member I was told a $1600 laptop would only be
useful for web surfing :S)

>> So, I ask the list, is it true that all notebooks will work with Ubuntu
>> 8.04 (+?) including the camera, mic, Skype for Ubuntu, Ekiga, ethernet
>> adapter to my router, Seagate FreeAgent 500 usb drive, wi-fi internet??

Laptops can be real pains to work with no matter what they run. Most
of the time they all work fine under linux, sometimes they can just be
slight pain to get things working although my experiences are usually
its only the little things (like the light detection not working and
having to be disabled - useless feature anyway)

> Hi David,
> can't tell you what to get, can advise you to leave Lenovo alone.

Thinkpads usually work well, there is even a wiki for them on linux
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

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Harrison Conlin