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Check out this link.

http://www.physorg.com/news74874827.html

which describes Lenovo marketing its T60 as a Linux laptop.  I believe 
this came about because Intel asked Lenovo to provide Linux laptops for 
its chip engineers.  Apparently, they were using some sort of design 
software that runs on Linux.



On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Ron Rechenmacher wrote:

> Hi,
> I was recently asked the question "which laptop should I buy if I want to run
> linux on it?"
> I do not have recent experience, but for the laptop I'm currently running
> linux on, I had to and did solve the issues with the
>      o  display driver
>      o  wireless driver
>  and o  suspend to RAM functionality.
>
> With out any recent experience, I can only recommend (but not a _strong_
> recommendation b/c of lack of recent experience) a laptop with
>      o  nvidia graphics
>      o  intel wireless
>
> But if anyone out there has purchase a laptop within the last 9 months or so
> and runs linux and can suspend to RAM, please let me know which laptop you
> have.
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
>

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