Laptop suggestion

[oldefortran]

Hi. What notebook would you suggest to buy?

Good Linux support of course, but it should also be very comfortable to write on.

[Art_illery]

I can only speak about my one and first Laptop i recently bought. I bought an Acer extensa 5220 for €450 (with an additional 1GB of Ram so that it would have 1.5 GB of RAM, as 512 MB seemed a bit underpowered to me for todays Systems).

So far i can´t complain too much, although on Gentoo Linux i didn´t get my KDE Desktop to start up yet, but as far as I have heared, almost any major Distro will work quite out of the Box with the Hardware in that Laptop.

And it is quite some Hardware in there for that price. The CPU is one of the new Celerons, which are true Core2 Merom Cores with 1 MB of L2 Cache. That CPU is quite ok for running anything you would like, only things you can´t do with that Laptop is serious gaming with fresh Titles like Crysis or Call of Duty 4 and the like, but up to Games which are about 3-4 years old you can play those games on that laptop. Plus, the X3100 onboard Graphics would already support DX10 so you could even run Vista with Aero Surface if you really wanted to. But i haven´t tested that yet. And i don´t know if I really would want to test that ;oP

I wouldn´t really know what you would like to do with your laptop, so basically this is just a small summary of my experiences with the choice of my Laptop, that i recently bought.

And if you are in for some experimenting and tweaking, there are already a number of threads around the internet discussing how to run the P4clockmod driver on those CPUs so that you can even clock the CPU on demand (which is a feature those CPUs officially don´t even have!!!) and there are also already a few people out there who opened up that Laptop and exchanged the Single Core CPU with a T7XXX dual Core CPU from Intel successfully, although again, the officail features of the chipset would state, that this isn´t possible, but obviously it is.
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[mr4v0]

I would suggest Lenovo, Thinkpad (linux geeks are crazy about this one ) if you can afford it.

edit: 15.4" widescreen is very nice for writing, I'd say.