Ultrathin Linux PC Envy

Jul 06, 2008, 04:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

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"I want; I mean I really want, an Apple MacBook Air. Mind you, I wouldn't kick a Lenovo ThinkPad X300 or Toshiba Portege R500 out of my hotel bedroom either. If you're a Mac or Windows user you've got several excellent top-of-the-line ultra-thin laptop choices. If you're a desktop Linux user, your choices aren't that great. So far.

"Oh, there are excellent pre-installed Linux laptops. For a full-powered one I see it as almost being a coin-toss between the Lenovo R61 with SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 SP 2 and the Dell 1420N..."

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