[Gslug-general] New Laptop

[Ross Jordan]

It would seem Benjamin Krueger, on Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:17:12PM -0800, wrote:
> * Paul Bartell (paul.bartell at gmail.com) [081222 16:01]:
> > Mainly, you get what you pay for when buying a laptop.
> > 
> > I have a dell XPS m1330, that came with ubuntu, but frankly it has all
> > kinds of random problems. Its almost as if it were slapped together
> > last minute to work somewhat with linux. And i dont even need to
> > mention the low quality of their tech support. (even when they forgot
> > to send a piece with the computer).
> > 
> > I have heard only good things about the smaller comapnies such as
> > system76 and zareason. They have good tech support, and will generally
> > make something that is wrong right.
> > 
> > I can also suggest apple, knowing how high quality most of their
> > hardware is. Last time I checked, they were shipping very well
> > supported on linux wifi cards (Atheros based), and frankly, they look
> > the best... But they do have the higher price tag.
> 
> I was going to second the Apple recommendation. They are probably the best Intel based laptop provider on the market today. Need a really good laptop to run Windows or Linux? Buy a MacBook Pro.

Apple laptops are manufactured by the same taiwanese contractors as
Dell, Gateway, Acer etc. (Quanta or whoever the flavor of the month is).
Their spec is reasonably good quality components, but you can get
similarly good components on the high end laptops from Lenovo (T, W
series) or Toshiba or Sony (and bonus that they are actually tested
on Windows and maybe Linux).

-Ross