Linux on a T520

[Michael Butash]

Check out thinkwiki:  http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

Dell is usually about the best for linux compatibility, but ibm's tend 
to be good, at least before lenovo borg'd them....

Problem is typically with laptops quirky bios/acpi functions that don't 
allow it to sleep, hibernate, or shutdown right.  Just google around 
seeing if anyone else has issues, otherwise game on.

I bought a new hp elitebook recently as I needed some beefy proc and ram 
for vm's (can do 16g w/4 dimm slots), but it's horrible bios and 
firmwares do not allow sleeping or anything right, even shutdown half 
the time.  HP still takes the approach "no one uses linux so screw it". 
  They're fat and happy collecting microsoft taxes - never again will I 
buy from them.

-mb


On 08/26/2011 01:48 AM, KevinO wrote:
> On 08/25/2011 08:42 PM, Joe zagar wrote:
>> I have a 520 64 bit, Intel i7, Windows 7 pro, running Ubuntu under Virtual Box
>> and everything works fine.
>>
> Thank you for the data point.
>