On 03/27/2012 12:46 AM, Phillip Waclawski 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). 
> 
I really like the Lenovo T520 (4239CT) I bought last summer. Quad core i7,
discrete NVidia video, Bluetooth, 1600x900 display. _Everything_ works under
Mageia 1.0 Linux without any fussing around, so I'd expect the same from most
distributions.


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KevinO
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