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[Rick Moen]

Quoting johnd (john at jjdev.com):

> Don't have it yet.  I am considering buying a Dell and want to make sure
> it is going to be a good linux laptop.

Yeah, well, good luck.

Dell is infamous for playing games with rebranding of other people's
components, and concealing the information from the public.  (They're
trying to sell people on the notion that you don't need to know what's
in the box; you supposedly need only know that it's a Dell.)  

Laptops are, in general, easily the most problematic category of x86
machines for *ixes.  The main recommended strategy is to AVOID buying
brand-new models of anything, and stick to ones that have been out long
enough to have known-good Linux/*BSD support for all of their chipsets.
Ergo, when I wanted to buy a laptop, I researched which ones were very
well tested, and then found one used, via eBay.

See also:
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
http://tuxmobil.org/

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