I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

[Ric Werme]

Less useful account, perhaps.

In order to put off upgrading my Suse 10.1 desktop system (Firefox V2), last
year I decided to buy a cheap laptop, and found a $150 off deal on a Lenovo
G560 system for $400.  I forget the specs, let me know if you want them.

It came with Windows 7 Home, the old laptop I was using had XP, so current
Windows flavor and it wasn't Vista.  I coinstalled Ubuntu, resizing the
Windows partition worked fine with no hassles other than the anxiety that
it wouldn't work fine.

It sometimes goes into work, but spends most of its time on KVM switch
running Windows because I can't figure out how to get around the VPN
software saying it only runs on a single user system.

The only significant complaint is the touch pad is way too sensitive, so
I'll often bring a wireless mouse.  Also, I tried removing the silly facial
recognition software on Windows, so instead of that coming up, I get an
error popup saying it can't find the program.  Minor nit.  Oh, the touchpad
keys click loudly.

And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop monitor.
We really used 640x480 displays once upon a time?  At least those were
(mostly) better than Teletypes, and those were better than keypunches.

  -Ric