Good machines that tend to work if not support Linux is sager notebooks.
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@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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