YALRQ (Yet Another Laptop Recommendation Question)
I've been a member of this community for a while, and while I'm normally answering questions, today I have one of my own, and unfortunately it's one that's been seen quite a bit, sorta.
I suddenly find myself in the market for a laptop. What I'm looking for is something in the 15" range (So it will still fit in my backpack) that gets decent battery life (3-5 hours), has has wifi (b/g at least), decent performance (1.5GHZ and up), light-weight, and preference is given to something that doesn't require binary blobs to work. I'm thinking something from Intel, since most of their peripherals (wifi, graphics,sound) are supported by some sort of official FOSS driver project.
I've googled and looked at several, but all the ones I've seen thus far are either glorified toys or use ATI or nVidia GPUs, and like I said, I'm trying to find something that will last (durability and run-time wise), has enough horsepower and connectivity, and can maybe run a game or two in the odd half-hour between crises.
(ETA: Duh, I should mention that this laptop will be running Linux full-time (No Windows partition if I can help it at all), so when I'm talking about drivers above, I mean something that will run on Linux 2.6.15+)
I suddenly find myself in the market for a laptop. What I'm looking for is something in the 15" range (So it will still fit in my backpack) that gets decent battery life (3-5 hours), has has wifi (b/g at least), decent performance (1.5GHZ and up), light-weight, and preference is given to something that doesn't require binary blobs to work. I'm thinking something from Intel, since most of their peripherals (wifi, graphics,sound) are supported by some sort of official FOSS driver project.
I've googled and looked at several, but all the ones I've seen thus far are either glorified toys or use ATI or nVidia GPUs, and like I said, I'm trying to find something that will last (durability and run-time wise), has enough horsepower and connectivity, and can maybe run a game or two in the odd half-hour between crises.
(ETA: Duh, I should mention that this laptop will be running Linux full-time (No Windows partition if I can help it at all), so when I'm talking about drivers above, I mean something that will run on Linux 2.6.15+)
