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olembe

#! Junkie

From: Salisbury, England

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 263

Suggestions for a thin & light laptop

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to the Linux world, but have learnt a lot quite fast! Through work, I'm probably going to be able to choose a new laptop pretty soon which I will stick Crunchbang on, and would like something light and portable, although still quite powerful (yeah, and I'd like some lightweight gold ingots too).

Anyway, I've been looking around and have seen computers like the Dell E4200 and the Thinkpad X301, but all seem to have various issues with Linux. I read that the Dell has pretty choppy graphics performance because its integrated Intel graphics aren't terribly well supported, and I got the impression from one website that the Thinkpads need hours of hacking to get them working properly.

So: anyone got any experience of ideas on a lightweight, relatively powerful laptop that plays well with Linux?

klanger

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-02-18

Posts: 596

Re: Suggestions for a thin & light laptop

So: anyone got any experience of ideas on a lightweight, relatively powerful laptop that plays well with Linux?

Macbook Air?

Macbooks work OK with linux, just follow the macintel wiki (set the min fan speed at 3000 rpm - that is a MUST!).

Last edited by klanger (2009-05-05 07:02:32)

Nicky

#! CrunchBanger

From: Paris (France)

Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 172

Re: Suggestions for a thin & light laptop

I had a Dell 15" with an integrated intel graphgics (don't remember the name), I installed ubuntu on it and I had no problems, everything was working directly. For portability and autonomy reasons I now have a EEE901, it works easy too, but it is less powerfull

Romulus87

Member

From: Arizona

Registered: 2009-04-27

Posts: 17

Re: Suggestions for a thin & light laptop

Depends on how much your willing to spend and what size your looking for. I owned a few Dell's, laptop and desktop, and I will never buy one again, the quality was horrendous. I just bought an Asus eee 900ha the other day and I slapped a 500gb hdd and 2gb ram for under 400 dollars. I'm a first time Linux user and it flies on my EEE, ASUS's are deceptively fast. You can't go wrong with Lenovo though.

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EEE PC 900HA- 1.6 Atom- 2GB DDR2 667 - 500GB WD HDD= Overkill

anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: Suggestions for a thin & light laptop

Why not get a laptop with Linux? Like these:

http://system76.com/product_info.php?cP … ucts_id=89
http://system76.com/product_info.php?cP … ucts_id=76

Last edited by anonymous (2009-05-05 16:37:53)

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