<div dir="ltr">Hi w0018749,<br><br>There are many laptops that Ubuntu will run very nicely with. I run Ubuntu on two laptops, both my personal and work machine.<br><br>Here's some info:<br><br><b>Personal Laptop</b><br>
Toshiba A100.<br>Centrino chip, 2gb RAM, 100gb HDD, Intel wireless, Marvin gigabit NIC, Nvidia 6600 GO graphics card<br><br><b>Work laptop</b><br>Dell Latitude D830<br>4gb RAM, Intel Mobile CPU, Intel Wireless, Nvidia Quadro 140M, 160gb SATA hdd, Intel gitabit NIC, etc<br>
<br>I'm sure that a bit of googling wont prove wrong when looking for a new laptop. For example if you decide to go down the path of a brand name (HP, Dell, Lenovo) etc, there are many a guides available on the net and experiences that people have had.<br>
<br>The best idea I can give you is focus on a model you are interested in, then google it. You will be surprised.<br><br>Cheers<br>Blake<br>
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I am buying a new laptop and I want to know: What brand of<br>
computers are the best? <br>
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You should know that already. Thinkpad :-)<br>
The R52 is a good computer, and should be easy to upgrade.<br>
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But maybe thats not yours? It would have had a bigger HDD originally.<br>
See: <a href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:R52" target="_blank">http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:R52</a><br>
If you are running VMware, then 2GB is nice.<br>
Its easy to put in a new PATA 2.5" disk.<div><br>
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2- keyboard with a number pad at the right (if possible)<br>
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Use an external USB keyboard. You can get one that just a numeric pad.<div><br>
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3- DVD player and cd burner<br>
4- wireless internet<br>
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Are you missing either of those?<div><br>
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5- I also need a stress-free installation process -<br>
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You can be confident of that with Ubuntu on a thinkpad.<div><div></div><div><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Blake Munro<br>+61 8 6363 5680<br><a href="mailto:blake.munro@gmail.com" target="_blank">blake.munro@gmail.com</a><br>
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