laptop advice time...

[Peter King]

I have a Lenovo W510, which is a delightful machine and everything Just 
Works on it (except perhaps the modem which I've never had occasion to
try out).  The keyboard is the old-style IBM keyboard, which is terrific,
not the recent "chiclet" style that seems to have become the Lenovo norm.
I would not buy that keyboard, so you need to be very careful about just
what is available and what you're willing to put up with.

Otherwise, I run gentoo on the W510, and as noted it all runs without any
sort of hiccup -- it just works. Lots of RAM, quad-core with multithreading
gives you eight virtual processors, good screen resolution...  If you can
find one with the right keyboard, buy it; you won't be disappointed.

-- 
Peter King			 	peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Department of Philosophy
170 St. George Street #521
The University of Toronto		    (416)-978-4951 ofc
Toronto, ON  M5R 2M8
       CANADA

http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/

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