Notebook Recommendations

[Albin Blaschka]

Behrang Saeedzadeh schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> I'm going to buy a new notebook. I just wanted to know if somebody has
> installed Ubuntu successfuly on a notebook (Intel or AMD inside) with
> all the hardware (modem, WiFi, ...) recognized.
> 
> I prefer an AMD notebook. In where I live Toshiba, Sony, HP,
> Compaq/HP, and Siemens notebooks are popular. I may have a hard time
> finding a reseller selling from other brands like IBM and Dell.
> 
> Best Regards.

Hello,

[My first time on the list...]

Even it's maybe difficult to find a reseller for you, as far as I am 
concerned, I would suggest an IBM Thinkpad. I have an R40, everthing 
worked out of the box on ubuntu (but the built in modem I have not 
tested). A friend of mine owns an R50, the same, Another friend owns an 
older Thinkpad-modell, and even there everything worked with a little 
bit tweaking. With debian testing it was no big problem either on my 
R40. As a plus, there is an mailing list specially for Linux on 
Thinkpads 
(http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad) with 
a friendly community, too.

Some issues may arise with acpi and software suspend, but with newer 
kernels and a little bit more time, this problem gets smaller and 
smaller, the developing in this field is very active...and there are 
differences in the different modells. With some it works already, with 
some others there are issues to solve...
(see: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/)

And the quality of IBM Thinkpads is near to legendary ;-) and the 
support is very good, too, and that's not only my saying, that's the 
general feeling on the thinkpad-mailinglist mentioned above...


On the ubuntu wiki there is some useful information, too: 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops


Hope that helped!

Albin

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