Hi all,

I'm having great difficulty in finding a laptop suitable for my
needs. I'm vision impaired and a student, so primarily will use the machine for
school, and at home.

Here is what I'm looking for: good debian linux support, including wifi,
ethernet, sound, and the general hardware of the machine.
I'm looking for something fairly recent, so I've got half a chance at
locating one in Australia, but any suggested models would be greatly
appreciated. I'm looking for something with a core 2 duro around 1.6
ghz or more, and I want something with really good battery life, perhaps
5 hours or more. I have about $1,000 to spend give or take. Finally, I'm
going to be carrying it around school every day, so portability is
important to me.

So basically it must have:
- Good debian support including wiffi
- core 2 duro 1.6 ghz or more
- Good battery life 5 hours or more.

I've been looking mainly at lenovo, hp, del, acer and maybe tosheba.

Any suggested models would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Dan

>On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> wrote:

[snip]

>So basically it must have:

>- Good debian support including wiffi
>- core 2 duro 1.6 ghz or more
>- Good battery life 5 hours or more.
>
>I've been looking mainly at lenovo, hp, del, acer and maybe tosheba.
>Any suggested models would be greatly appreciated.


[snip]

What about something like this?* Seems to meet your specs and budget (couldn't find battery life info but a quick phone call could probably answer that for you), plus it's designed for linux compatability.* Mini PCIe wifi card is an extra $29 (see bottom of link).* They preload with Ubuntu, Fedora, etc., but I assume you could install Debian with little to no headache if the machine is designed to run with those distros.* Again this could probably be confirmed by calling them.


http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2100sn.html

Mark

Daniel Dalton wrote:

Hi all,

I'm having great difficulty in finding a laptop suitable for my
needs. I'm vision impaired and a student, so primarily will use the machine for
school, and at home.


Here is what I'm looking for: good debian linux support, including wifi,
ethernet, sound, and the general hardware of the machine.
I'm looking for something fairly recent, so I've got half a chance at
locating one in Australia, but any suggested models would be greatly
appreciated. I'm looking for something with a core 2 duro around 1.6
ghz or more, and I want something with really good battery life, perhaps
5 hours or more. I have about $1,000 to spend give or take. Finally, I'm
going to be carrying it around school every day, so portability is
important to me.

So basically it must have:
- Good debian support including wiffi
- core 2 duro 1.6 ghz or more

- Good battery life 5 hours or more.

I've been looking mainly at lenovo, hp, del, acer and maybe tosheba.

Any suggested models would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Dan


if it were me, i would be narrowing that list a little, the only decent
machine you mentioned would be toshiba. top 3 machines for customer
satisfaction, reliability are asus, sony, toshiba. check out system76
as well, using a pangolin here, very impressed.



steve



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> Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> I'm having great difficulty in finding a laptop suitable for my
>> needs. I'm vision impaired and a student, so primarily will use the machine for
>> school, and at home.
>>
>> Here is what I'm looking for: good debian linux support, including wifi,
>> ethernet, sound, and the general hardware of the machine.
>> I'm looking for something fairly recent, so I've got half a chance at
>> locating one in Australia, but any suggested models would be greatly
>> appreciated. I'm looking for something with a core 2 duro around 1.6
>> ghz or more, and I want something with really good battery life, perhaps
>> 5 hours or more. I have about $1,000 to spend give or take. Finally, I'm
>> going to be carrying it around school every day, so portability is
>> important to me.
>>
>> So basically it must have:
>> - Good debian support including wiffi - core 2 duro 1.6 ghz or more
>> - Good battery life 5 hours or more.
>>
>> I've been looking mainly at lenovo, hp, del, acer and maybe tosheba.
>>
>> Any suggested models would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers, Dan

On 17.01.10 22:09, steve reilly wrote:
> if it were me, i would be narrowing that list a little, the only decent
> machine you mentioned would be toshiba. top 3 machines for customer
> satisfaction, reliability are asus, sony, toshiba. check out system76
> as well, using a pangolin here, very impressed.

My son won a toshiba notebook ans I must say I am very disappointed by their
way of support. Their registration pages need very narrow list of browsers
etc, they need cookies even to browse some basic informations etc.
There may be of course different points of view but currently I wouldn't
buy toshiba nor recommend it to anyone.

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2010/1/18 Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having great difficulty in finding a laptop suitable for my
> needs. I'm vision impaired and a student, so primarily will use the machine for
> school, and at home.
>
> Here is what I'm looking for: good debian linux support, including wifi,
> ethernet, sound, and the general hardware of the machine.
> I'm looking for something fairly recent, so I've got half a chance at
> locating one in Australia, but any suggested models would be greatly
> appreciated. I'm looking for *something with a core 2 duro around 1.6
> ghz or more, and I want something with really good battery life, perhaps
> 5 hours or more. I have about $1,000 to spend give or take. Finally, I'm
> going to be carrying it around school every day, so portability is
> important to me.
>
> So basically it must have:
> - Good debian support including wiffi
> - core 2 duro 1.6 ghz or more
> - Good battery life 5 hours or more.
>
> I've been looking mainly at lenovo, hp, del, acer and maybe tosheba.
>
> Any suggested models would be greatly appreciated.
>


Dan, you should definetely ask the computer retailers in your area
about Debian (or just mention Linux) support on the laptop. Even
though chances are slim that they will bother making a recomendation,
if we do not let them know that there exists a Debian / Linux market
then they will never offer Debian-compatible laptops for sale. Right
now we are at the stage where we must let them know that we even
exist.

Good luck!

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> Dan, you should definetely ask the computer retailers in your area
> about Debian (or just mention Linux) support on the laptop. Even
> though chances are slim that they will bother making a recomendation,
> if we do not let them know that there exists a Debian / Linux market
> then they will never offer Debian-compatible laptops for sale. Right
> now we are at the stage where we must let them know that we even
> exist.
>
> Good luck!
>

Agree to that. And in some countries where laptops are sold with Windows
product installed by default, many manufacturer will propose to move it away
and to give you some money back. Check that on the web site of the
manufacturer of the laptop you decide to buy.
Thierry


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Thierry Chatelet wrote:

Dan, you should definetely ask the computer retailers in your area
about Debian (or just mention Linux) support on the laptop. Even
though chances are slim that they will bother making a recomendation,
if we do not let them know that there exists a Debian / Linux market
then they will never offer Debian-compatible laptops for sale. Right
now we are at the stage where we must let them know that we even
exist.

Good luck!



Agree to that. And in some countries where laptops are sold with Windows
product installed by default, many manufacturer will propose to move it away
and to give you some money back. Check that on the web site of the
manufacturer of the laptop you decide to buy.

Thierry



Hello everybody!

Daniel,
Maybe that link will be useful for you:

http://www.emperorlinux.com/mfgr/lenovo/toucan/

That should give you an idea what laptop you should buy.

Chris.






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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:25:56PM +0100, Krzysztof Walkiewicz wrote:
> Maybe that link will be useful for you:
>
> http://www.emperorlinux.com/mfgr/lenovo/toucan/

Thanks, had a quick read, looks handy.

Dan

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:28:38PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> Agree to that. And in some countries where laptops are sold with Windows
> product installed by default, many manufacturer will propose to move it away
> and to give you some money back. Check that on the web site of the
> manufacturer of the laptop you decide to buy.

I would, however, unfortunately I'm doing a subject at school (ict),
which requires me to do some form of visual basic... Which sucks, but
hopefully it leads to bigger and better things.

Thanks,
Dan

> Dan, you should definetely ask the computer retailers in your area
> about Debian (or just mention Linux) support on the laptop. Even
> though chances are slim that they will bother making a recomendation,
> if we do not let them know that there exists a Debian / Linux market
> then they will never offer Debian-compatible laptops for sale. Right

Good point.

Dan