Laptop Recommendation

Dave Cross dave at dave.org.uk
Wed Jan 25 11:23:07 GMT 2012


On 01/24/2012 10:34 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
> In particular, suspend/resume*still*  doesn't work properly at least ten
> years after I first ran into this problem.
>
> If I close the lid on this laptop, then:
>    * it gets very hot so is presumably eating the battery;
>    * it doesn't re-connect to the network when I open it again;
>    * I need to restart X for the second monitor to work
>
> I suppose that's an improvement over how Linux used to be - Back In The
> Day you had a 50/50 chance of needing to power-cycle after closing the
> lid.

Just to put the other side of the argument - all of my laptops run 
Fedora and it's been about six years since I had any problems with 
suspend/resume.

I guess I've just been lucky with the hardware I've chosen.

Dave...

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