Re: Dell or HP laptop with excellent support to Linux (Debian)

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Mark schreef:
> ...
> In general, our experience at work has been: HP desktops are great 
> (again, "business" grade not home or consumer grade), but HP laptops we 
> gave up on and went back to Dell.  That's just our experience though.
>
> HTH

>      > G'day,
>      >
>      > My name is Alexander Kapshuk.
>      >
>      > I am looking to purchase a Dell laptop with excellent Linux support
>      > (Debian
>      > Lenny).
Dell sells laptops preinstalled with Ubuntu. Then you certainly know all 
hardware is supported and saves you a Windows licence. Eg My laptop, a 
Dell XPS M1330, has all these specs, is currently being sold with 
Ubuntu, and everything works. Even the fingerprint sensor works (with 
fprint from experimental)!
>      >
>      > Here are the specifications I am after:
>      >
>      > CPU = Inter Core 2 Duo;
>      >
>      > RAM = 3GB or 4GB;
>      >
>      > Graphics Card = NVIDIA GeForce;
>      >
>      > Hard Drive = 250GB or 320GB;
>      >
>      > With a webcam;
>      >
>      > With a card reader;
>      >
>      > Wi Fi: anything but Broadcom (i was told Broadcom Wi Fi has a
>     lousy Linux

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