On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 03:38:17PM +0200, Jonas Hedman wrote: > Hello I hope that is not OT for this list. > > Basically I'm on the hunt for a newish laptop on which I naturally want > to run Debian. I'm a student and I spend most of my daily outandabout > computer time reading pdfs, writing LaTeX docs, surfing and doing some > light coding, no heavy duty stuff in other words. I use i3vm and I > generally like to keep things as light and minimal as feasibly possible. > > I really value light weight and good battery life and my upper bound on prize > is somewhere around 875$ (~7K SEK). Memory should be greater than or > equal to 2GB and an sdd would be nice. > > I know very little about hardware and I'm not quite sure where or how to > start looking. I though the Lenovo Thinkpad 13 looked promising but it's a > bit > over my price target. Could chromeboosk be something to look into? I > know the older thinkpads has good debian support but if I remember > correctly they are also very heavy.
System76 (www.system76.com) makes laptops that run Ubuntu; it has generally been easy to retrofit Debian on them. They have several models that fit in your price range including more RAM and an SSD. I have purchased a fair number of machines from them over the last decade, for both work and home. -dsr-
