Quoting Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey All, > > The time is approaching, the time when I buy a new laptop. > > My current one is an Acer TravelMate 4150. It's the most awful laptop > ever. I have currently sent it in for repair twice and now something > else has gone wrong with it so it looks like I'm going to have to send > it in again. Acer's awful quality is leading me to *STAY AWAY* from > them when purchasing my new notebook. > > I'm sure there's plenty of recommendations that you guys (and gals) > can come up with based on your experience. Both in terms of hardware > support in GNU/Linux and overall stability and efficiency of the > hardware. I would also appreciate it if you could stick to hardware > that requires low, if any, proprietary drivers (e.g. proprietary WiFi > seems to be the norm so there's not much I can do about that). > > I would like to set the budget at one thousand pounds (£1,000) as I'm > a student and so that's already pushing it for the price. I need all > of the money I can get to put towards university. > > Jai / "Venko" > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
What are you going to be using it for? If you only have basic needs then a £500 one would be fine. Are you looking for something small and portable or a full desktop replacement. The xps m1330 is good, and I think uses nearly all free drivers if you choose the intel graphics. The dell vostros are pretty nice too. Or you could but 3 eee900's ;) Mj -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
