I use a Lenovo T500 at work and I've never had an issue with any of the IBM/Lenovo<br>business class notebooks running Linux. Little more money but pretty rock steady<br>and it's easy to get replacement parts and upgrade the machine yourself if need be.<br>
<br>Oksana<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
It's spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to ... a new laptop, given that my current one is starting to show its age. And not wanting to break the bank but still wanting something at least a moderate step up, I poked around my favourite online store, tigerdirect, and came up with:<br>
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<a href="http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6017035&CatId=3985" target="_blank">http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6017035&CatId=3985</a><br>
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The immediately appealing features:<br>
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* not stupidly expensive<br>
* relatively high-res -- 1366x768 has always felt a bit cramped, so the 1600x900 will be nice<br>
* faster DDR3 memory<br>
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My only puzzlement is the Intel Core i3-330M processor, and I remember a thread on that topic not that long ago so I might pop back to the archives and check it out, but other than that, I'm interested in the thoughts of folks more knowledgeable about these things than me.<br>
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Naturally, it will run Linux so is there anything about it that would be considered Linux-unfriendly? Thanks.<br>
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rday<br>
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P.S. Specs on that processor:<br>
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<a href="http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=47663" target="_blank">http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=47663</a><br>
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Not surprisingly, H/W virt support is mandatory.<br>
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