Re: [PLUG] Linux Laptop

["Rich Mingin (PLUG)" <plug@frags.us>]

As a Linux-loving Macbook Pro user, it's best to avoid the Retina displays unless you enjoy tinkering, since not everyone's HiDPI scaling is 100%, and I'd recommend leaving at least a tiny maintenance copy of OSX on the metal, for applying updates from Apple (which can silently update firmware when you least expect it). Also, Thunderbolt displays are all but useless for any OS that isn't OSX with full OSX quirks. Just FYI.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Rohit Mehta <ro@paper-mill.com> wrote:

I really love my IBM/Lenovo X60T (tablet-drawingpad/laptop convertible), and low-end chromebooks are very competitively priced coming with ChromeOS (looks to me like a Googly stripped down version of Gentoo but you can change this)

On the Lenovo route, I found thinkwiki.org very helpful.  If money is no object, check out emperorlinux.com, but everything they sell can be had much cheaper. 

MacBookAirs are also quite nice and not terribly on price, and I'm pretty sure you can (with some work) install linux and have an OSX VM running in virtualbox :)

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Joe Rosato <rosatoj@gmail.com> wrote:

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Joe

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:41 PM Rich Mingin (PLUG) <plug@frags.us> wrote:

Don't know if you like to tinker (I do, many don't), but the HP, Lenovo, and most other OEMs have a whitelist for WLAN/WWAN/other devices that can make upgrades and tinkering more difficult or impossible. My last HP in particular was a horror, replacing the WLAN with a newer and better unit that wasn't in the whitelist caused the machine to beep and intentionally fail POST. Dell doesn't do whitelist and has committed to not doing so going forward a few times. Throwing an SSD (or a faster SSD) and newer, better wireless in has made quite a few of my older laptops surprisingly capable.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Christopher Wawak <chris@wawak.org> wrote:

My employer offers employees who travel the option of a Lenovo X1 Carbon. Runs Fedora or RHEL 7 just fine.

Chris

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