On 01/10/16 05:02, Michael B Allen wrote: > Ok, I see a lot of nice answers here so I would like to try to refine > this a little. > > After some research I was going to skip Lenovo. People are clearly > having problems running Linux on Lenovos. I spoke with one person that > had a really hard time with their X250. However, I think a lot of > problems are caused by bleeding edge hardware. My feeling is it takes > at least 1 year before the kernels have the necessary updates. Also, > searching the Internet forums for problems is dubious because people > who don't have problems don't say so on forums. But asking "is model > XYZ known to work" is a good test as evidenced by these great > responses. So I will ask again with some more specific details. > > The key features for me are: > > * 1080 display or 900 would be acceptable but definitely not 768 (this > rules out Toshiba) > * Good keyboard with mouse buttons (Lenovo has always had superior > keyboards and fortunately that have recently resurrected mouse > buttons, yeah!) > * RJ-45 (this rules out a LOT of laptops including Dell) > * Intel graphics / hardware > > The Lenovo T series meets these requirements. My only concern would be > issues mentioned on this list and bleeding-edge issues. I know people > have had a lot of problems with the trackpad, screen flickering and > other things. But I think most of this can be blamed on bleeding-edge > hardware compatibility. For example, I think the synaptics driver is > almost always broken in the latest models (move the mouse and it > deletes everything you've typed!) but if you uninstall it and use > libinput it can work. > > So my thought is instead of getting the latest which would be T460, I > could get the previous model which would be the T450. These are sold > out on lenovo.com but they can still be had elsewhere (not sure about > warranty which is hugely important though). > > So does anyone have any specific knowledge of the T450, T450s, T450p? > > I really appreciate all the answers. Hopefully this helps other folks too. I have been using the high end ASUS laptops - i.e. Republic of Gamers machines since 2012 with CentOS6 and more recently with CentOS7. They were a challenge with 6.x in that I needed some elrepo drivers to get the keyboard backlight working but 7.x just works. These machines are almost server spec i7 with 16GB RAM, dual disk drives (one SSD, one rotating media) and separate nVidia graphics cards. YMMV but I'd buy another one any time. > Mike > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos