[plug] Recommendations for a laptop

[Leon Wright]

I know a few plug members have an X Series thinkpad and we have a few at
work. They are great machines, however the screen resolution sucks.
1366x768 is an utterly useless resolution.

The Air at least has 1440x900. Personally I think the T series thinkpads
aren't that much bigger/heavier, more screen resolution options, have
replaceable batteries and larger ones can be purchased. They're also dead
trivial to get linux working on them as they pretty much "Just Work" in my
experience (at least with the Intel Graphics, which work just fine for
coding/web browsing).

They do do a lighter version of the T series with a 1600x900 screen, but
it's probably as expensive as an air.

http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440/#tab-tech_specs

Leon



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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com>wrote:

> G'day all,
>
> After using my laptop as a fuse between a power meter I was debugging, and
> the mains I find myself in need of a replacement.
>
> My laptop was a Sony Vaio TT, and its predecessor a TX so I'm used to
> small (11.1"), light (<1200g) and 6-11 hours of battery.
>
> I've been looking at a 13" Mac Air, but I wonder if anyone else has
> recommendations for a small and light linux suitable machine with a 10-12
> hour battery life (or >6 hours with a replaceable battery).
>
> The Vaio was 1366x768 ~1.2ghz Core 2, 8gb ram and 160gb Intel SSD. Ran for
> 6 hours on the standard battery and 11 on the extended.
>
> Recommendations of suitable machines that cost less than the Mac and have
> at least feature parity with the VAIO would be very warmly welcomed. I
> write code on it, so it needs to be an x86_64 and it really does need at
> least 160GB SSD.
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