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posted by Dopefish on Saturday April 05 2014, @03:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the moore's-law-still-trucks-ahead dept.

Question for the lentils out there: What makes and models of laptops are good these days? Traditionally, you could just get an IBM ThinkPad if you were willing and able to pay extra for quality, but judging by reviews, they aren't as consistent as they used to be. A 'nice' laptop has to get a lot of things right: fast internals, sturdy case, quality keyboard, excellent battery life, and good heat management, to name a few. Are there any manufacturers that sell machines worth buying anymore, or do you have to compromise?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by dargaud on Monday April 07 2014, @08:49AM

    by dargaud (364) on Monday April 07 2014, @08:49AM (#27338)
    Boot, get into the BIOS, disable UEFI, insert Linux CD/DVD/USB, install. Done in about 10 minutes. Of course if you also want Win on it, you are better off running it in a virtual machine anyway.
    As to the original question, I recently got a lite HP SpectreXT Ultrabook, Linux runs perfectly on it but I had to pay the MS tax. And also a much beefier and bigger Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed (the option is really well hidden on their site). Buying Dell was basically the only way I could get a QWERTY keyboard in a non-querty country; and other options.