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Re: Laptop advice



 Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> On Jun 23, 2008, at 17:37, randy cole wrote: 
>> John Abreau wrote: 
>>> I've had the best luck with Thinkpads; I've always found them to 
>>> work well with 
>>> Linux. I had some problems once with a T41 where Ubuntu wouldn't 
>>> recognize 
>>> some of the hardware, but when I reinstalled with Fedora, everything 
>>> worked 
>>> out of the box with no extra tweaking. 
>> ...plus there's a redhat person on this list with a thinkpad :) 
> That there is... :) 
> 
> ThinkPads are far and away the most common laptop within Red Hat (or 
> at least in the Westford, MA office). A fair number of HP, Dell and 
> Apple laptops and a smattering of other brands, but if I had to guess, 
> I doubt the cumulative total of non-ThinkPad laptops even comes close 
> to the number of ThinkPads. 


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