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[pk_fox]

Title says it really, my faithful old Dell Inspiron 9200 is on its last legs so I need a replacement. The only caveat is it must play well with Fedora

[nordle]

Advised my dad to buy a Lenovo (he didn't want to spend more than £400 in 2008).
It's been very good.

Of course this is no help at all, no model number and not very recent. But if I was buying, I'd look at their latest range and google those to see whats what.

There is a linuxlaptop website too, can't remember exactly.
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[towy71]

I don't have one of their computers but try here Linuxemporium for Linux pre-installed or buy one from Lenovo and install Linux yourself
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[Rhakios]

I recently (well January, to be accurate) bought a cheapish Toshiba Satellite C660-2EL, which works fine with Xubuntu 12.04. There have been some dodgy periods where the wifi hasn't worked very well, but it's settled down now and seems fine.
In general, going for anything with Intel hardware gives pretty good support (indeed, I would probably have had less trouble with wifi if it had an Intel wireless card on board).
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Bye, Rhakios

[pk_fox]

Thanks people - keep em comin

[mediamgl]

My main laptop is a Lenovo X220 and I have been running Ubuntu (11.04, 11.10 and 12.04) on it for the past 10 months or so. I have also played around with CrunchBang and Arch; both also seem fine on this particular hardware.

I would definitely consider another Lenovo when the time comes for a personal hardware refresh.

Ubuntu has a certified hardware page, with some of the most recent Lenovo and Dell laptops identified, if you're interested:

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/

^Hope this helps.

[pk_fox]

[einonm]

If you're looking for a laptop with no Wintax(TM), then I can heartily recommend Novatech http://www.novatech.co.uk. I've had three laptops from there, for myself and family, and have had almost no problems with them (I've had a slight issue with one touchpad not being a synaptics one, but sentelic, and the driver had a few bugs) - I also run Fedora exclusively.

Best of all, they're based in the UK and have a few stores dotted around the UK as well as the usual internet shop.

If I were to say anything bad about them, the laptop housings on some of their own-branded machines feels a little cheap and flimsy, but I fortunately haven't dropped one yet to find out if this is actually the case.

(You can also play on the website and see how much they add on to the prices for Windoze - for example, one PC at £290 with no OS is as much as £690 with Win7 ultimate + office2010!)

[pk_fox]

[carl_h]

I had a Dell 1300 Inspiron for several years, that ran Ubuntu perfectly.

[ajgreeny]

This looks a pretty good way to go as well, and you can play around with specs online and see the cost change. They also supply with no OS if you don't want one.
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/
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Xubuntu 12.04 user, and loving it!

[Paradigm Shifter]

[tweetiepooh]

I like IBM/Levano for Linux as they have a 3 button "mouse" and that extra button really helps.

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[chris0161]

Just found an American company with Ubuntu pre-installed called System 76

https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/lemu4

Here ia a review on OMG Ubuntu:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/hands-on-with-the-system76-lemur-ultra-ubuntu-laptop