Looking for Laptop Suggestions

Lisa Kachold lisakachold at obnosis.com
Tue May 12 07:41:08 MST 2009


In a Word:  Dell
Dell makes the best laptops available and support Linux.

You essentially have only one problem here:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/04/itunes-syncing-now-works-in-linux-with-wine/
Banshee http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7150747782.html

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take a
> laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from Gnome, so
> Windows, Mac, Linux are all "the same" to her. She is a journalist, not a
> computer geek. Anyway, one significant requirement is for iTunes to work
> with her iTouch (i.e. buy music and download to her iTouch). I have not been
> able to get Wine/iTunes to work with Debian, so I have resorted to a single
> Windows computer just for a few games and iTunes at home.
>
> Any recommendations (1) for laptops and (2) how to keep her using Linux and
> not shelling out extra bucks for a Mac, or heaven forbid, a Windows machine?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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