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The Perfect Fedora Laptop?

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I recently sold my old laptop which had Fedora 10 installed on it, because a lot of the functions didn't work while using Fedora: -SUSPEND TO DISK FAILED -SUSPEND TO RAM FAILED -MY BATTERY LIFE WAS CUT IN HALF COMPARED TO WHEN I USED WINDOWS (ACPI PROBLEM) -WIRELESS ONLY WORKED WITH NDISWRAPPER (which, for me, was annoying since i wanted to use aircrack....) -etc, etc, etc.... I'm shopping for a new laptop, and want to buy one before school starts again. If anyone has had a 'near to perfect' experience using their laptop running Fedora, could you please post your model and a description of how everything works. I wanted this thread to be dedicated to laptops that actually work very well when running Fedora. Thanks. (HowTos)

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