[COLUG] Laptop Recommendations

[Duane]

Jeffrey Tadlock wrote:

> I avoid Sony at all costs.  I've worked for a couple of places where
> we had an occasional Sony in use and they have always seemed to have
> either some issue or be poor performing in comparison to other models

I doubt I'd ever buy another Sony for as long as I live because I have
had issues too, and having a failed hdd shouldn't mean needing a new
motherboard to fix it, or when the battery failed it didn't just fail to
hold a charge but every time it was bumped in just the right way it
would kill all power to the computer.

> we had in use.  On top of that they always seemed to have had trouble
> with clean Linux installs that just work, whereas I rarely have

I've installed Ubuntu on both my own and my partners Sony laptops (small
sample I know) but I haven't had any install problems with any of the
hardware except the dial-up modem which is a winmodem.

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Best regards,
 Duane

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