Best Laptop Experience with Fedora

[Rares Aioanei]

On 04/26/2010 08:02 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> On 26 April 2010 07:51, Dale Dellutri<daledellutri at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Edmon Begoli<ebegoli at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> I am thinking of buying a Laptop to run Fedora 12/13/ ... on it.
>>>
>>> I am member of the Fedora project and I want to have a laptop only for
>>> development and testing of the code, packages and new releases on it.
>>>
>>> So far I had mixed luck with wireless cards/drivers and video cards,
>>> so I want to
>>> ask community of Fedora users:
>>>
>>> what Laptop in below $600 or $700 would they recommend as the machine
>>> with the best Fedora experience.
>>>
>>> I am also looking for the easy hard drive swap in and out solution,
>>> so that I can swap complete distros by swapping hard drives
>>> (I have dual boots and USB but I find hard drive swapping more
>>> convenient for what I am doing. I can explain my motivation in more
>>> details if needed)
>>>        
>> Your only stated requirements are price, the ability to do development,
>> and the ability to swap disks.  Given those requirements, I'd get a
>> refurbished Dell laptop from Dell at:
>>    http://www.dfsdirectsales.com
>> You can get a laptop with no operating system.  Disk removal/replacement is
>> fairly easy on the Dell D-series laptops, just a screw or two.  You'll
>> probably
>> want to buy a second carrier.  Or, I guess you could boot from USB dirves.
>>
>> I got my current Dell D630 that way, on which I've installed F12.  The
>> wireless,
>> as well as everything lese, works well.
>>
>> This is just one suggestion.  Just about any laptop would work.  Just make
>> sure that the NetworkManager can handle the wireless card and that disk
>> removal is easy.
>>
>>      
> I have used a Thinkpad SL series with Fedora 12 with no problems.
> NetworkManager plays wonderfully nice too. :) I think it cost about
> CAD 800 but probably there was some kind of a savings deal.
>
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>> --
>> Dale Dellutri
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>    
Thinkpads are among my favs, but on that budget he'd rather get a
new HP or Dell.