Considering a new laptop

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I would stay away from System76.
Bad BAD (and costly) experience...
ET 

PS: YMMV... 

 

Stephen writes: 

> The other option is a vendor like system76 they have a good bang for buck
> value. Or maybe red 7. 
> 
> But the instant you add discrete graphics your battery life goes way down. 
> 
> Also the dell latitudes support linux quite well. Just not in an official
> sense.
> On Mar 27, 2012 12:46 AM, "Phillip Waclawski" <waclawski at mesacc.edu> wrote: 
> 
>> I have one of the Dell Ubuntu Laptops from about 6 years ago (yes, they
>> did sell 1420n inspirons with linux pre-installed :). It still works, but
>> the Intel Graphics card doesn't support Opengl very well, so that makes
>> Blender, openshot and other programs on linux a pain, and things like
>> wacraft literally impossible. 
>>
>> So, I've been thinking about
>> http://zareason.com/shop/Strata-6770.html     decked out to the point I
>> want is about $1400, but the 6 cell battery with maybe 3 hours of battery
>> life...ugh
>> http://zareason.com/shop/Verix-2.5.html    with a few upgrades goes to
>> $2300 or so, everything I could want, but nearly $900 more. 
>>
>> I know you pay a bit of a premium going with a non top tier vendor that
>> supports linux, but I've heard good things about them, and enjoyed their
>> talk on "RetroGnome" at SCALE X. 
>>
>> What do folks think? And what other laptop vendors that support Linux
>> (with good NVidia graphics cards in them, I won't do Intel graphics ever
>> again). 
>>
>> Thanks
>> Phil Waclawski 
>>
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