[vox] Looking for a new laptop

[Brian E. Lavender]

I bought a couple Thinkpad T60's off ebay for cheap. They only take 3GB 
ram, but they are workhorses and run great with Linux. Both came with no
battery, no hd, and no charger. I think both were business lease returns.

I have the X1 Carbon touch which works great, but Lenovo changed the new X1's
and Linux users have complained. they took out the F-key buttons and changed 
them to and adaptable keys, not good from what I can tell.

brian

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 12:14:41PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>    Hi all,
>    I'm in the market for a new laptop that will run Linux. System76 sells
>    them, but they're on the pricey side (though I imagine I could replace
>    Unity on their systems with Kubuntu, which is what I prefer).
>    I'd also be willing to buy a solid laptop from one of the bigger
>    manufacturers, so long as I know that it would be possible to wipe
>    Windows 7 or 8 off the hard drive and install Kubuntu. Anyone have
>    experience with this?Â
>    It doesn't have to be a state-of-the-art machine, since I don't do
>    gaming, graphics, or anything like that; mostly I do web browsing, word
>    processing and some web development.
>    TIA!
>    Richard
>    --
>    Sláinte,
>    Richard S. Crawford
>    ([1]richard at underpope.com)Â [2]http://www.underpope.com
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> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:richard at underpope.com
>    2. http://www.underpope.com/
>    3. http://twitter.com/underpope
>    4. http://www.facebook.com/underpope

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make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

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The 1980 Turing award lecture