On Thu, Dec 13, 2012, at 03:22 PM, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:35:38PM +1100, Roger wrote: > > On 12/13/2012 10:41 AM, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:00:01AM +1100, Jesse Stevens wrote: > > >> > > >> We're looking at replacing an aging workhorse Samsung laptop we use > > >> for lots of video transcoding with Ubuntu and occasionally having to > > >> boot into Windows 7 for some ugly BrightAuthor usage. > > >> > > >> We want to get one of the new Alienware M14x laptops but it appears > > >> most come preinstalled with Windows 8 when buying them off the shelf. > > > > I've seen one case [1] of a Ubuntu/Win 8 dual-boot on a Lenovo laptop; > > > whether > > > this install was done as ordinary mortals do is not clear. > > > > > > >From my personal experience, you can only have Windows 8 and Ubuntu on > > > >the same > > > machine on separate drives [2]. This install was done in the bog standard > > > way. > > > > Frankly that is how I would do it, 2 separate drives. It's arguably more > > cumbersome > > but when windows fails you still have a working laptop. > > I haven't seen many laptops which can hold a second internal drive unless > you get rid of the optical drive. >
For what it's worth: Many Lenovo Thinkpads will take a MSATA drive (replacing the WWAN card) + SATA drive + optical drive. Most of the current crop of Clevo/Metabox/Horize laptops will take two SATA drives + optical. - Graeme _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
