[plug] Which brand of laptop?

[Fred Janon]

The IBM laptops were designed by IBM and manufactured (very well in my opinion) by Lenovo for years. Only a couple of years ago IBM decided to sell their consumer division and Lenovo bought the business part. The new laptops are designed by Lenovo with the previous experience from IBM, so I think they are probably very close to what they were with IBM but cheaper and sold through different channels (OfficeWorks for example).

Fred

--- On Mon, 8/18/08, Jason Nicholls <jason at mindsocket.com.au> wrote:
From: Jason Nicholls <jason at mindsocket.com.au>
Subject: Re: [plug] Which brand of laptop?
To: plug at plug.org.au
Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 10:14 AM

> > These are the things I need on this laptop:
> > 1- big enough hard drive to have both linux and windows
> > 2- keyboard with a number pad at the right (if possible)
> 
> Not sure if anyone has already mentioned this, but Lenovo (IIRC)
> recently launched one with all the features you want and as it's an
> ibm it probably covers feature 5, too.

Yeah the 17" W-series model has a keypad, but that laptop is pretty big.
And FYI Lenovo is a separate company to IBM, they bought the consumer PC
division a long time ago. i.e. Lenovo's are Lenovo's.

> > 5- I also need a stress-free installation process - I have
> > had several attempts of installing linux and not many
> > successes

And I don't think this is necessarily the case. There is frequently
issues using the latest tech and linux on laptops. If you're about to
make a decision I'd do a bit of a search around to see if anyone else
has successfully got it going (the typical issues are around video,
audio, wireless, and suspend).


Jason.
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