Re: Considering a new laptop

>>> 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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