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Re: Laptop advice



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Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
| On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 
|> ThinkPads are far and away the most common laptop within Red Hat (or at 
|> least in the Westford, MA office). A fair number of HP, Dell and Apple 
|> laptops and a smattering of other brands, but if I had to guess, I 
doubt the 
|> cumulative total of non-ThinkPad laptops even comes close to the 
number of 
|> ThinkPads. 
| 
| +1 on Thinkpads: All of them I have owned worked great with Linux (at 
| least 5 different models)... 
| -1 on HP: They have all sucked for me with Linux (at least 3 different 
| models)... 

I've had reasonable success with the two Acer laptops in our house.  So 
far the only insurmountable problem (mostly, I think, from lack of 
effort) has been the built-in card reader (SD, CF, etc) on one of them. 

~ -Don 
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