On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 12:39:18PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > 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.
+1 Even "multimedia" keys and other things they generally ensure are supported.
