You have had better luck than me then! I have had 2 Dell laptops, one I bought which failed after 13 months, just 1 month out of warranty, and one at a company I worked for which lasted longer but if I remember correctly Bluetooth stopped working after about 18 months. Both ran Fedora of course, but I had to swap the wireless card out of my one as the factory card was not supported without binary drivers, that was quite a long time ago though.<div><br></div><div>Both of the HP laptops came with a 36 month warranty as standard, which is a lot better than 12 months cover and failing hardware a month later. Of course I may well have been unlucky, YMMV.<br><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Martin<br><br>On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen@griffith.edu.au> wrote:<br>
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I can say the same thing for all DELL laptops I have every owned!
And I have gone though a lot of them!
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <<a href="mailto:A.Thyssen@griffith.edu.au">A.Thyssen@griffith.edu.au</a>>
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:43:04 +1000,
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As a fellow Fedora user I would recommend HP.
I've been through many manufacturers of laptops over the years but HP
is the only one that has never given me any trouble.
I have two workstation spec laptops, one from about 8 years ago (8510w)
and one from about 2-3 years ago (Pavilion dv6). Both laptops have only
ever run Fedora from day 1 and both have been upgraded through the
versions to the current. Everything works on both laptops, even the
fingerprint sensors and all ports - all out of the box with no
proprietary or extra drivers. As far as I can remember the only thing
that doesn't work is the screen brightness control on the dv6, although
I have never needed it anyway.
Both have been ultra reliable - nothing has broken at all on either
laptop despite very heavy use (60hrs/week) and regular carrying around.
Both have been dropped and survived with nothing more than surface
damage. I've had to replace the battery on each a few times, obviously.
I can't advise you on the current HP lineup, but I know where I'll be
looking when I come to replace either of them. The usual due diligence
on which model uses Linux compatible parts is needed, but I've been
super happy with them both.
Cheers,
Martin
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Roy E. <<a href="mailto:kirpit@gmail.com">kirpit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<blockquote> Hi folks,
I know this sounds a bit cliche but I am having difficulties for
choosing a linux laptop, after an awful experience with Lenovo T450.
It was either incompatible with linux or some erratic hardware
malfunctions, anyway it is going back.
I am really curios if anyone here is up to date with the current
technologies / bought any fast machine recently that plays well with
Fedora. I am kind of a localhost person who runs everything in-box,
so most likely I am gonna replace harddisk with SSD if it doesn't
come with one. No budget limit.
Even though performance comes before its weight for me, reddit people
suggest Carbox X1 3rd gen that is less than 1.5 kg..
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3dsb4p/lenovo_carbon_x1_3rd_gen_quick_review/">https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3dsb4p/lenovo_carbon_x1_3rd_gen_quick_review/</a>
Thank you in advance,
Roy.
</blockquote>
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