<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Allie Daneman</b> <<a href="mailto:df@drainfade.com">df@drainfade.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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 ;)
<br>Adam Miller(<a href="mailto:maxamillion@gmail.com">maxamillion@gmail.com</a>)@Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 08:08:48PM -0500:<br>><br>> Stay away from ThinkPads if you are worried about price. I would say<br>> check out [1]sonystyle.com ... sony has for a very long time tried to
<br>> be the "apple of the pc world" as far as design style goes, it might<br>> be a good place to look (you are probably going to need to go with<br>> lower end parts to keep cost down, but form factor should be do-able)
<br>> and as long as you stick with an intel pro wifi card, everything<br>> should work off a fresh installation<br>> -Adam<br>></blockquote><div><br>The Thinkpad R series is pretty good for the price. You can get a decently configured R60e for under / around $700. I think it's kind of a cruel joke that their base R60e comes with 512mb of RAM and Windows Vista Home Premium by default. That setup wouldn't run well at all.
<br><br>Has Dell come up yet? We are talking about laptops on an X/Ubuntu-related mailing list, right? Check out the inspiron e1505n with Ubuntu pre-installed.<br><br>Unfortunately, in terms of appearance, I don't think that you'll find much that will compare to the "cool" factor of a Mac. I'm a fan of thinkpads, though, because they have what I think are the best keyboards.
<br><br>Have fun laptop hunting!<br><br>Jim</div></div>