On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:20:04 -0700 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, September 14, 2013 05:58:51 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > Those exist? > > > > I've long heard stories about such things, but they seem to be like > > unicorns or mermaids or bigfoot...fantasy creatures you only ever > > hear tales "through the grapevine" about. Not so much real evidence > > or first-hand accounts. > > Lenovo and Dell certainly used to, but I don't know about right now. > One company that's definitely still doing it though is System76 (who > is one of the Linux Action Show's sponsors). _All_ of the systems > that they build are built specifically for Linux (both desktop and > laptop). They don't even sell anything with Windows on it. I always > build my own desktops, but the next time that I'm in the market for a > laptop, I'll probably end up getting one from them. > > www.system76.com > Hmm, that sounds awesome, in many ways, but they appear to be very expensive. Their *cheapest* one is over $800. I certainly don't need a full i7. (I'm on a two-core Intel B960 right now, and it's plenty fast for anything I do, The *only* beef I have with it the ridiculous lack of hardware virtualization - so no 64-bit VMs. But there's an even cheaper model now with an AMD IIRC - so that would have the hardware virtualization, and other specs at least as good as my current one, all for less than $300 for the entire machine. An $800 laptop these days would be overkill unless I was doing CG animations, or professional HD video editing/compositing, or something like that...or using Eclipse...) Don't really need the 1080 resolution either since I'm usually on an external monitor - 1080 would make everything way too small on a 15" anyway.
