I have been only used dell for the past 10 years, and never had any issues. I currenty have a Dell vostro 1520, which works out of the box with Debian testing. I run Windows in vmplayer when I have to use it. 

Mark

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
Same with Dell, they employ guys like Mario Limonciello supporting their hardware that does a lot of compatibility testing and pushes fixes internally with dell for bios and other vendor-supported features.  I'd do quick compat checks before buy, but Dell is usually a pretty safe option for linux support I find.

I'd gone with a HP Elitebook for pure power (and 4 dimm slots for cheap 16gb ram) and other than raw performance, it's been an disaster for linux support.  ACPI and bios disk functions are broken at best, and they will never fix them because their "userbase is too small".  How about just making hardware that doesn't suck?  Perfect example of a vendor parasite around linux - happy to use it to sell servers, but nothing else.

-mb



On 03/27/2012 07:01 AM, Stephen wrote:
Good machines that tend to work if not support Linux is sager notebooks.

On Mar 27, 2012 6:35 AM, "kitepilot@kitepilot.com
<mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com>" <kitepilot@kitepilot.com

<mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com>> wrote:

   I would stay away from System76.
   Bad BAD (and costly) experience...
   ET
   PS: YMMV...


   Stephen writes:

       The other option is a vendor like system76 they have a good bang
       for buck
       value. Or maybe red 7.
       But the instant you add discrete graphics your battery life goes
       way down.
       Also the dell latitudes support linux quite well. Just not in an
       official
       sense.
       On Mar 27, 2012 12:46 AM, "Phillip Waclawski"
       <waclawski@mesacc.edu <mailto:waclawski@mesacc.edu>> wrote:

           I have one of the Dell Ubuntu Laptops from about 6 years ago
           (yes, they
           did sell 1420n inspirons with linux pre-installed :). It
           still works, but
           the Intel Graphics card doesn't support Opengl very well, so
           that makes
           Blender, openshot and other programs on linux a pain, and
           things like
           wacraft literally impossible.
           So, I've been thinking about
           http://zareason.com/shop/__Strata-6770.html

           <http://zareason.com/shop/Strata-6770.html>     decked out
           to the point I
           want is about $1400, but the 6 cell battery with maybe 3
           hours of battery
           life...ugh
           http://zareason.com/shop/__Verix-2.5.html

           <http://zareason.com/shop/Verix-2.5.html>    with a few
           upgrades goes to
           $2300 or so, everything I could want, but nearly $900 more.
           I know you pay a bit of a premium going with a non top tier
           vendor that
           supports linux, but I've heard good things about them, and
           enjoyed their
           talk on "RetroGnome" at SCALE X.
           What do folks think? And what other laptop vendors that
           support Linux
           (with good NVidia graphics cards in them, I won't do Intel
           graphics ever
           again).
           Thanks
           Phil Waclawski
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