Re: best labtop for debian

2011/2/16 Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>

Hi

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 03:21, Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
> On a related topic, could you please tell me which of the current
> ThinkPads have the same basic (awesome) feature-set which the old
> favourites (T61, T42 etc.) had? I am genuinely unaware, and wanted to
> know if all the ones available today (X-series, T-series, Edge etc.)
> carried similar goodness.

Any takes on this?

What about the Satellites?
And eeePCs and similar? <ducks for cover>

yeah - the satellites and eeepcs are not in the same league (or price range) as the ibm t and x series (i don't know anything about 'edge').

again, you generally get what you pay for. sometimes more or less so. however, a $500 eeepc isn't going to be as nice as a $1800 x301 (or whatever they are now). that said, i generally like the eeepc stuff (as much as i've used them). i haven't taken them apart or anything. but they look like solid little machines for the price. i also like the olpc laptops - they are cheap, durable as hell (i want to go scuba diving with one and see how deep before it dies - that would be fun), and oh yeah, did i mention cheap. the olpc won't run any big graphic stuff and rally the display does look like shit (but you can read the screen in direct sun), but for basic use, you can't get better - anywhere. oh, and it's got three trackpads (not kidding).

what i generally do when looking at a new machine is; figure out my price range, figure out what i really want in a machine (battery, graphics, durability), check a bunch of reviews, and jump. linux will probably support whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be a gsm modem, fingerprint reader, dual mode graphics, no name 802.11 card - stuff like that.