Re: [opensuse] Linux Notebook recommendations

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 19:31, Alex wrote:
1. 15 - 17" Display
2. Turion II or less desirable Athlon II dual core CPU. Quad core is
fine as long as it's AMD
3. 1 GB Ethernet controller
4. Wi-Fi Wireless 802.11b/g/n controller which is known to work with
Linux without excessive headaches.
5. nVidia integrated graphic controller. In the worst case scenario I
can live with ATI Radeon.
6. At least 4GB DDR3 RAM expandable up to 8GB. I don't want to have
older and slower DDR2 RAM.
7. Preferably in black or other non-flashy matte colors. I don't like
that bright and cheesy silverish goldish el'cheapo glossy colors.

I bought a used Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li 3910 for my girlfriend, and
it works great with openSUSE 11.2. It's really an install and forget
laptop... but it's rather big. It has a dual core T3400 64 bit CPU
(2.16GHz), 18 inch display, 250GB hard drive, and 4GB Ram. Probably
the only "issue" with the laptop is that it has an Intel GMA X4500HD
video card. That's a problem if you want to do any gaming.. for
normal desktop/office work... it's fine.

Installing openSUSE is as easy as popping in the DVD and starting the
install. You can take all defaults, and on the reboot everything will
be set up and working. WiFi works with zero tweaking. Video is set
up to the right resolution etc.

It doesn't meet all your list items, but.. it's proof that there are
good laptops out there that are well suited to run Linux.

C.
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