[ale] laptop advice needed

[Scott McBrien]

Some of the sleep/suspend stuff on the Lenovo line is settings in the  
bios, a dash of the desktop software, and a pinch of kernel.  RHEL 5.2  
and 5.3 work well, as do Fedora, which isn't surprising considering  
the Red Hat corporate standard is Lenovo Laptops.

That said, my MacBook also, "just works", but was significantly more  
$pendy.

-Scott

On May 23, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>  
wrote:

> I never got sleep/suspend working on the T60 they issued me. After 9
> months of tinkering I traded it for a MacBook Pro.
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> IBM LENOVO THINKPAD T60 DUO CORE 2.00GHZ XP PRO WI-FI - $250 -
>> That's a good price on a laptop that works well running Linux.  I  
>> ran RHEL 5
>> on one for about a year.
>> -Scott
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a Dell Latitude D620 for work. Fedora 10. If I close the lid,
>>> it suspends.
>>>
>>> More importantly, when I open the lid it resumes!
>>>
>>> The wireless required that I load the firmware into /lib/firmware.
>>> Once done, it works well. It has reassociation issues as the AP's  
>>> seem
>>> to hiccup and when moving around campus but a quick script with a
>>> panel button to stop NetworkManager, stop networking, unload the
>>> wireless module and restart it all and it works fine for me.
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The only Linux laptop advice I can give is buy one that comes with
>>>>> some form of linux. Otherwise you're likely to spend months on
>>>>> sleep/suspend, wireless, and video issues. It doesn't have to come
>>>>> with your distro of choice. If the OEM got Linux to work, so can  
>>>>> you.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You have to be careful. Sometimes the OEM has little experience  
>>>> with
>>>> linux and didn't really get it to work. Just google for eee pc  
>>>> wireless
>>>> and look at the complaints.
>>>>
>>>> I think Dell has done a good job supporting Ubuntu on their  
>>>> laptops. You
>>>> can get the Inspiron 15N ($374), Mini 9 ($264), or 1330N ($834)  
>>>> with an
>>>> integrated webcam. You can configure the 15N pretty nicely for  
>>>> around
>>>> $500.
>>>>
>>>> http://dell.com/ubuntu
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Brian Pitts
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