I've had no problem with Dell and Sony laptops that I've used. I like the Sony keyboard and laptop quality much better. I would suspect that the newest Ubuntu would work on pretty much anything you wanted. The screen resolution may be one thing to double check if you go for high resolutions, but if you use the vendor drivers, then I bet you'll be ok. I've heard the HP Envy is supposed to be very nice, but I have used it.
I've found the best way to research which laptops work with Linux is to google the laptop model and the linux distro you want to use. A lot of folks post their success stories on personal blogs. You can sometimes see gotchas before you decide on a laptop. More so than with other blogs, you should take what you read with a bit of skepticism. Lloyd On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Kirk <kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was about to buy a new laptop just as this disturbing news about Java > came out. Now that I step back and take a better look at things, I think > there is more than just that reason to go with something else. I have two > reasons for Mac. First, the OS well integrated with the hardware, it is Unix > and it just works out of the box. I'm not interested in messing with > drivers. Second, is the trackpad. Every trackpad I've tried on Windows > spec'ed hardware leaves me wanting to use a mouse. > > Question to the group is; what is a good choice for a laptop that has good > Linux support? > > Regards, > Kirk > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
