Re: OT: laptop choice

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:29:27 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:

> For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country (france),
> it is impossible to get computer without  $W exccept if you get acer.

JFYI, HP also ships laptops (company/enterprise based) with SLED 11 and/
or FreeDOS:

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/fr/fr/sm/WF04a/321957-321957-64295-3955552-3955552.html

(and maybe other brands are doing the same)

> So she want to buy  this one:
> eMachines G443-E352G32Mn - Ordinateur Portable 17,3'' - AMD E-350 (1,6
> GHz) - 320 Go - RAM 2048 Mo - AMD Radeon HD 6310 - Linpus Linux with is
> equiped with a linpus, which I am going to replace by a debian. Since
> the last acer I bought is still over heating (I am using it right now) I
> would kike to have retourns on the above.

I wouldn't care about the default OS that comes with the laptop¹ but look 
for a computer/hardware that suits her needs.

My preferred brands for laptops are Toshiba and HP (the ones I have tested) 
and also have good references from Lenovo's (though not directly tried).

¹Windows OEM licences are given to the customer almost at no cost, the 
prize is mostly symbolical, just adds a bunch of euros and you can always 
make a full image and then remove it.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón