On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Jonas Hedman <jonas.hed...@fripost.org> 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. > > As a small reference: I made due with a Asus EEE PC 1005HA for a number > of years and it generally worked well for my purposes but it died and > surfing was a pain so I'm looking to upgrade a bit from that. > > Any suggestions?
Sorry for the late reply. Just wanted to add my 2 cents. Years ago when I was shopping for a laptop, I found the <http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/> website very useful. -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
