[GTALUG] Recommendations for useful laptop suitable for Ubuntu

[Mike Kallies]

On 2019-07-15 8:38 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 2019-07-14 11:18 PM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote:
>> Refurbished is OK, and pre-loaded with Linux is also fine. Budget is
>> perhaps $600-$800.
>>
> 
> Lenovo ThinkPads tend to be good.  I have an E520.



For Thinkpads, even the Thinkpad line varies in quality, the T and X 
series being the go-to business models.

Check the mil spec testing on

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/i_pdf/ThinkPad.pdf


This should cover a little bit of sand getting in your bag, leaving your 
machine in your trunk overnight in the winter or on your car seat 
durning the day in the summer, putting it in a motorcycle panier, etc...

Not all Thinkpads get the rating, and it makes me wonder, since the 
rating seems a pretty low bar, if the models without it, simply didn't pass?


(I have horrible luck picking laptops for Linux compatibility, so I'm no 
real help beyond this.  My next hunt, I'm going to ask a kernel 
developer what they use, or what Linux companies are giving employees, I 
don't have time to troubleshoot stuff anymore.)



-Mike