From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@southernstarsolutions.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:46:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110330184604.GA676@gaurahari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gC8tc-5RI-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote:
> I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone
> else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware
> worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about
> WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser
> concern. Currently I have a "Linux Certified" machine but I want to
> avoid shipping costs to the UK.
>
I've always had the best luck with the hardware support for
thinkpads (and dell inspirons, though they're kind of clunky
and cheesy). Can't vouch for the new ones though, it's been
a few years since I upgraded.
--
caveat utilitor
next parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <gC8tc-5RI-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-03-30 18:46 ` Elaine C. Sharpe [this message]
2011-03-30 22:56 ` [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"? Valmor de Almeida
2011-04-02 11:55 ` Zhu Sha Zang
2011-04-03 13:55 ` Kfir Lavi
[not found] ` <gDz7Y-7oR-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-04-03 17:56 ` Indi
2011-03-30 18:31 Robin Atwood
2011-03-30 18:37 ` Davide Carnovale
2011-03-30 18:48 ` skiarxon
2011-03-30 18:49 ` JM
2011-03-30 19:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-31 0:09 ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-31 4:12 ` kelly hirai
2011-03-31 6:16 ` Kevin Coetzee
2011-03-31 14:15 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2011-03-31 14:57 ` BRM
2011-03-31 18:40 ` Ryan Harris
2011-04-01 6:43 ` Walter Dnes
2011-04-01 10:21 ` Fernando Antunes
2011-04-03 17:12 ` Robin Atwood
2011-04-03 17:28 ` Peter Humphrey
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