Considering a new laptop

[Stephen]

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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