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

[Chip Marshall]

On 13-Apr-2012, David Ohlemacher <ohlemacher at gmail.com> sent:
> My last laptop was (still in use) a Lenovo T61. It was
> mistakenly ordered with Vista. We only used XP and Linux. When
> XP was installed, it just never worked - blue screened every
> day. So I inherited the misfit and installed Linux. Works
> great. It is a nice work horse. Nice keybd. If the screen had
> been higher res, I would have used it longer.

I've had Linux on a Thinkpad T42 (iirc) and it worked great.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/ is a great resource

Also, Woot has a ThinkPad L512 today for $500, can't speak to it's
quality, but just thought I'd mention it. http://woot.com/

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Chip Marshall <chip at 2bithacker.net>
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