[ale] Good Linux laptops

[Barlow, Jim D]

Mathew stated:
>  I have an asus k73 and a b53. The k73, worked fine until i changed the internal wifi card to an intel one, then it worked great. I have said it before, the asus laptops are great, to my complete surprise. 
>  On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Doug Hall <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:
>  A coworker, whom I switched to Ubuntu a little over a year ago, is looking for a nice new linux laptop. I know the Lenovos are usually a pretty good choice. Does anyone else have a laptop they're thrilled with, which will > run Mint or Ubuntu? He's not a techie, so compatibility is important. I think he uses it for basic things - pictures, email, web, etc.

I get a Lenovo ThinkPad, an HP Elitebook, and a Dell Latitude each year at work.    They all work great.    When you get into the consumer grade stuff, things can be trickier.    For me, I found Ubuntu a little flakey (but improving) on how the BCM wireless is supported.    It kept breaking with updates.

I switched that neighbor to Fedora, and she is happy with the low end laptop now.

- Jim