[xubuntu-users] macbook alike

[Allie Daneman]

You get what you pay for...if you want a rock solid laptop that 'just works' out of the box get a Thinkpad. If you wanna screw around and buy a machine that will break after being dropped once get something else ;)
Adam Miller(maxamillion at gmail.com)@Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 08:08:48PM -0500:
> 
>    Stay away from ThinkPads if you are worried about price. I would say
>    check out [1]sonystyle.com ... sony has for a very long time tried to
>    be the "apple of the pc world" as far as design style goes, it might
>    be a good place to look (you are probably going to need to go with
>    lower end parts to keep cost down, but form factor should be do-able)
>    and as long as you stick with an intel pro wifi card, everything
>    should work off a fresh installation
>    -Adam
> 
>    On 6/3/07, Allie Daneman <[2]df at drainfade.com> wrote:
> 
>      Try the X or T series Thinkpads. They beat anything out there.
>      Phil Pinkerton([3]pcpinkerton at gmail.com)@Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at
>      01:54:57PM -0300:
>      >
>      >    For my 2-cents my New Acer-Aspire is fantastic although it is
>      64bit
>      >    and a bit buggy running Linux.
>      >
>      >    On 6/3/07, Illusha Nokhrin <[1] [4]illu45 at gmail.com> wrote:
>      >
>      >      I believe that in Europe, there are many Samsung notebooks
>      that
>      >      have a small and sleek form-factor. In North America, the
>      Sony Vaio
>      >      is a popular choice, although, as I recall, they are mostly
>      >      ultraportables, which might not be what you're looking for.
>      >
>      >    On 6/3/07, João Santiago <[2]exalowprofile@[5]gmail.com >
>      wrote:
>      >
>      >      a friend recently bought a macbook i like it but its too
>      expensive.
>      >      is
>      >      there a laptop with the same form factor but non apple?
>      thanks
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> References
> 
>    1. http://sonystyle.com/
>    2. mailto:df at drainfade.com
>    3. mailto:pcpinkerton at gmail.com
>    4. mailto:illu45 at gmail.com
>    5. http://gmail.com/
>    6. mailto:users at lists.ubuntu.com
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