Considering a new laptop

[Kevin Fries]

Really?  I use nothing but.  Extremely solid.  I have a Starling Netbook
that is 3 years old and handles all my home budget, and other household
stuff.  Then at work, I use a Lemur 8x5.  I find the most instable part of
either machine to be the newer versions of Ubuntu (god I gate Unity)

Kevin
On Mar 27, 2012 7:34 AM, "kitepilot at kitepilot.com" <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>
>> 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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