Notebooks on Linux

[Stephen]

--- On Fri, 1/15/10, Renata Rocha <natzilla-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I'm planning to buy a small (about 12" or below) notebook
> when I
> arrive in Canada. This is supposed to be a real notebook,
> not a
> netbook (or at least a netbook with a very good processor,
> I need
> something nice to be my main PC)
> As it will be my main PC, it will run Linux, nothing else.
> So, I need
> a small notebook that will run linux out-of-the-box. I
> thought of
> going to some bestbuy-like and try to boot a Ubuntu from a
> pendrive.
> If it runs, buy it. I don't know if this will work (will I
> be arrested
> for doing that?). But, first, I believe it's easier to ask
> you if you
> have some experience with this kind of hardware.

Have a look at MSI laptops. I have had one for two years and I am happy with it. I bought it without an OS and avoided the M$ tax.

Stephen
 

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