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Re: Debian laptop recommendations? Non-proprietary software only.

Or The Haswell revision of the Acer Aspire S7

Or the Asus UX301


Basically if you are buying a laptop new. Don't buy anything that isn't a Haswell chip - mainly due to battery life issues with Ivybridge series.

Also avoid anything with 'Hybrid' Graphics. There are issues with EDP panel recognition under even intel-drm-next kernel trees with these due to poorly implemented and documented EDP matrix splitters between graphics chipsets.

I have it on Authority that Haswell will be the last chipset where Optimus/Hybrid graphics will exists. Good riddance.


-Joel
@aenertia


On 28 March 2014 07:49, Testosticore Fantastiballs <testosticore@openmailbox.org> wrote:
Hello, all!

I'm currently in the market for a laptop/notebook computer on which to have a fully free installation of Debian GNU/Linux.

That's is, I plan to have no proprietary programs whatsoever installed on it. This doesn't mean that I won't install some programs which Debian, as per the Debian Free Software Guidelines, may consider to be "non-free", since I believe there is quite a number of programs which Debian places in this category but which still actually meet the Free Software Definintion and are therefore considered non-proprietary/free software.

Wi-Fi should work out of the box. The graphics should be free software-friendly.

I'm currently eying the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E130 and the Thinkpad Edge E420. Have any of you had experience with any of these machines or similar ones?

Thanks :)


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