Linux compatability of a couple of laptops?

[William Park]

Avoid HP.
Lenovo, Samsung, Asus have good rumours.
Dell is gamble.  From personal circle, Dell has 50% failure within 2
years.
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William

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 09:02:53PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   My old netbook appears to be dying, with spontaneous freezes, taking
> multiple attempts to reboot, etc.  I like the netbook form-factor, but
> not the crippled hardware.  For potential replacements, I'm looking at
> 
> 1) An ASUS machine (AMD)
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_367&item_id=046492
> 
> 2) An Acer machine (Intel with HM77 Express chipset)
> www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_367&item_id=054900
> 
>   Any linux compatability gotcha's?  The Intel video driver appears to
> be open source http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_hd4000_linux37&num=1
> but the AMD appears to be proprietary.  The Intel has twice the ram and
> a larger hard drive.  Any comments/experiences?
> 
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
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