My own day job has me with a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 which has been pretty solid and fast. It came with XP and is ready for 7 and I have a vm on it with CentOS 6. The company is now issuing more Thinkpads that come with 8GB RAM and an option of RH, Fedora or Ubuntu. The RH laptop of a colleague is blazingly fast.
I got spoiled, though, by a Lenovo IdeaPad, and prefer lugging that around to toting the laptop. The IdeaPad has 2GB RAM and is running WattOS very nicely. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Michael Nolin < mno...@embedded-unlimited.com> wrote: > > My $DAYJOB has provided me with a rather capable Lenovo ThinkPad CORE i7 > W520. > rather large for the daily commute the size of the power brick is > unreasonable looks like an actual > full size brick. > > Never had problems running Linux on the ThinkPad products. Unfortunately > it was pre-installed with > Windows7 (32 bit), I added a VirtualBox openSUSE 586 12.1 XCFE machine. > Intel Gigabit Network Card. > > > > Michael Nolin > Embedded Solutions Unlimited, LLC > 3 Bradford Street, Windham NH 03087 > http://embedded-unlimited.com > > > On Thu Apr 12 14:10 , Bill Freeman ** sent: > > ** > > My Acer is scaring me. Sometimes at startup it goes into an infinite > reboot loop. The way out seems to be to force power off, flex the > case and whack it a few times, after which it boots. > > So, I'm considering replacing it. Last round I insisted on an AMD > CPU, but I'm currently drawn to an i7 or i5. > > I know that lots of folks swear by the ThinkPads, and I will consider them. > > I'm not really willing to consider Compaq/HP, Gateway, or Apple, and > I've found Linux on Toshiba to be troublesome in the past. > > Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons? > > Any additional suggestions? > > Any bad experiences with the i7 CPU? > > Thanks, Bill > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/<http://parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.gnhlug.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fgnhlug-discuss%2F> > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
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