Going on the hunt for a good Linux laptop may not be as simple as we might like to think. While it may seem like a real ‘no brainer’ to some, for others it could be seen as more of an art to others. In this article from the Linux Gazette, we have an opportunity to see just how involved this whole process can actually be!

As I pack whatever I think is worth keeping into a few bags and a shipping box, I realized that I needed a laptop - again. As I leave Trinidad behind, heading to LinuxWorld and ending up in the Dominican Republic, a laptop becomes important. It also saves me from lugging around a 19″ monitor and an array of CPUs which has an inefficient weight to value ratio - at least for being mobile.

So I started looking around. The key here was to look for a laptop that I don’t have to pay for Microsoft’s alternative operating systems, and that would give me the most per dollar. Most laptops come with the ‘Microsoft Tax’. So the first thing to do in this age is to do a Google search - a Google search for Linux laptops. Oddly enough, no manufacturers showed up in the search with pre-installed Linux. I’d read about them, but they aren’t registering in a Google search. But as most journeys, part of the joy is in travelling.

Resources Of Note

The Google search netted all kinds of interesting results.