Re: Best Linux Laptop

At 1142277356, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Michael Ott wrote:
I've heard of lots of people running Linux on IBM
Thinkpads, but I can't seem to purchase one from
Lenovo without Windows.

IMHO ThinkPads are just the best laptops you can get,
period. That might change in the future, though. And the
ammount of support you get from the thinkpad-linux user
base is enourmous. Look at http://thinkwiki.org, and the
mailing-list archives.

Seconded (or thirded) - the X40 in particular is great.

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