[arch-general] Off-topic: Good laptop to run Arch on?

[Lukas Grässlin]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 04:33:36PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> It's that time for me again... my desktop is getting long in the tooth so I'm
> starting to look around for a replacement.  This time I thought I'd also
> include laptops in my search.  However, with laptops it's difficult to find
> out just how well they work with Linux.  Are all the built-in devices,
> webcams, fingerprint scanners etc, fully supported?  Is the power management
> (ACPI) fully supported?  Etc, etc...
> 
> In the past I've heard good things about Linux on IBM's ThinkPads.  But I've
> heard some VERY bad things about getting Linux working well on Lenovo's recent
> models.
> 
> So, I resort to ask for advice on this mailing list.
> 
> What laptops should I have a look at?
> Is there some brand (Dell, HP, ...) that is more Linux friendly than others?
> 
> /M
> 
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I'm using a Lenoxo Thinkpad x200 and except for the fingerprint reader
_everything_ works completely fine.

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