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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Non-Thinkpad/Apples you can recommend?




On 07/03/2016 08:32 AM, Tomasz Buchert wrote:
> On 30/06/16 23:00, martin f krafft wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> considering Lenovo has really gone downhill with their hardware and
>> judging how they interpret "next business day" to be a best effort
>> sort of non-promise (and then mess up the parts delivery), I'd be
>> really interested to hear from people at DC16 with other hardware
>> that they can recommend. If you're the proud owner of a rugged
>> laptop running Debian, please consider to ping me on IRC ('madduck')
>> or reply to this mail (reply-to set) and I'll come and find you
>> (starting Saturday…).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- 
>>  .''`.   martin f. krafft <madduck@debconf.org> @martinkrafft
>> : :'  :  DebConf orga team
>> `. `'`
>>   `-  DebConf16: Cape Town: http://debconf16.debconf.org
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> 
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I'm a happy user of Dell XPS 13 which I recommend (I have the edition
> with Skylake CPU, no touch-screen). That said I still experience
> problems related to my GPU: for example I can't use VLC to play video
> media (Xvideo extension doesn't work), but I use mplayer
> instead. There is BCM3450 in my laptop, but I heard that XPSes bought
> in Europe have Intel cards.
> 
> Despite small problems (most of them fixed in the recent
> kernel/x11/mesa releases), my experience is close to perfect. I had
> Dells at my previous work too and was always a happy user.

And I am walking around with Librem13 which works out of the box with
Debian main (there will be, hopefully, tomorrow some more Librem devices
where people will have chance to play with it).

> 
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> 
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