On 8/15/14 5:29 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.) wrote: > Also, Canonical works closely with*Lenovo* to certify Ubuntu on a range of > their hardware. > http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/make/Lenovo/?category=Laptop
Okay. I'll say it. I was a very late-to-the-game ThinkPad dork. I knew the X40/T61's were solid machines and arrived to the Sandy Bridge ones: T420 (bought a refurb), T520, X220 and see that the previous generation, T410, T510 and X201 are the first with Core i* processors for certain new hypervisors that need EPT. I see the next ones, T430, T530 and X230 have Windows 8-ified dumbed down keyboards and things went down hill from there: (badly) hidden mouse buttons under the track/touch pads and to add insult to injury, A NEW POWER CONNECTOR after years of the previous one. For me, it's the Sandy Bridge (T420) and previous models with few alternatives. They generally ship with Intel networking and are thus pretty well supported by open source operating systems. I *HAVE* had weird GPT issues and finally found some work arounds. UEFI is still not quite ready for everyone and every OS. On the plus side, you can do some very cool things with UltraBay drives: http://www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_7&zenid=2fbd2d23a4510beff375ea628417dfc1 Mirrored ZFS anyone? Hypervisor booted to internal mSATA? They're not perfect but just may be the best available. I watch Craigslist for them when I can and I have found T61's/T400's at Free Geek/Green Century/EcoBinary for $100 to $200 which, for the money, are pretty solid computers. From there? I would probably use a MacBook and suffer from endless quirks with open source operating systems. Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
