looking to purchase a Linux compatible laptop ... recommendations?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:25:25AM -0400, bob 295 wrote:
> A colleague of mine is looking to purchase a new laptop to use with Linux.    
> I don't have any real laptop + Linux experience.     Which brand should he be 
> looking at?   which distro?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

You generally can't go wrong with a thinkpad.  Well as long as you avoid
one with ATI graphics (which are just a pain under linux.  I really
hope this changes some day since it is very nice hardware, burdened with
crappy drivers).

I think they are even having yet another sale (redflagdeals.com should
have the coupon code).

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