Considering a new laptop

[Michael Butash]

Same with Dell, they employ guys like Mario Limonciello supporting their 
hardware that does a lot of compatibility testing and pushes fixes 
internally with dell for bios and other vendor-supported features.  I'd 
do quick compat checks before buy, but Dell is usually a pretty safe 
option for linux support I find.

I'd gone with a HP Elitebook for pure power (and 4 dimm slots for cheap 
16gb ram) and other than raw performance, it's been an disaster for 
linux support.  ACPI and bios disk functions are broken at best, and 
they will never fix them because their "userbase is too small".  How 
about just making hardware that doesn't suck?  Perfect example of a 
vendor parasite around linux - happy to use it to sell servers, but 
nothing else.

-mb


On 03/27/2012 07:01 AM, Stephen wrote:
> Good machines that tend to work if not support Linux is sager notebooks.
>
> On Mar 27, 2012 6:35 AM, "kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com>" <kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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
>             <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
>             <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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