[Noisebridge-discuss] need laptop recommendations

[Susan Werner]

I have one of those and am using it right now! lemme know if you have issues
with the video driver, i ran into hella issues getting it to work. Get a 
six-cell battery, not the default three-cell one so you can get hella battery
life. 

-- 
susan

On Oct 12 21:40, Ryan Ruggles <ryanlruggles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the info everyone.
> 
> I am probably going to go with a Lenovo ThinkPad X120e. That seems
> like a good combo of durability, portability, low price, and Linux
> compatibility.
> 
> Thank you everyone for all the suggestions.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Samir Faci <samir at esamir.com> wrote:
> > If you're looking at ZaReason then you might want to look into
> > system76 as well.  Both of them
> > are very Linuxy laptops and imo you're paying a premium over a
> > standard dell (insert favorite vendor here),
> > but you get a laptop where you know that everything will work out of the box.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Samir
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:10 PM, John Magolske <listmail at b79.net> wrote:
> >> * John Magolske <listmail at b79.net> [121010 12:55]:
> >>> I picked up a brand-new X200s from itxchange.com a few years back for
> >>> $500 -- priced low as it was an old model at that point, but I really
> >>> like it.
> >>
> >> Apparently itxchange.com doesn't resolve sans-www (thought browsers
> >> were supposed to be able to take care of that...). Anyhow, in case
> >> someone thought that was a dead link, here's the full url:
> >>
> >>   http://www.itxchange.com
> >>
> >> Also, I found this to be a helpful page:
> >>
> >>   http://www.itxchange.com/help-desk/understanding-condition-codes
> >>
> >> (I've no connection with this outfit other than finding it to be
> >> a good source for ThinkPads.)
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> --
> >> John Magolske
> >> http://B79.net/contact