Same with Dell, they employ guys like Mario Limonciello supporting their
hardware that does a lot of compatibility testing and pushes fixes
internally with dell for bios and other vendor-supported features. I'd
do quick compat checks before buy, but Dell is usually a pretty safe
option for linux support I find.
I'd gone with a HP Elitebook for pure power (and 4 dimm slots for cheap
16gb ram) and other than raw performance, it's been an disaster for
linux support. ACPI and bios disk functions are broken at best, and
they will never fix them because their "userbase is too small". How
about just making hardware that doesn't suck? Perfect example of a
vendor parasite around linux - happy to use it to sell servers, but
nothing else.
-mb
On 03/27/2012 07:01 AM, Stephen wrote:
Good machines that tend to work if not support Linux is sager notebooks.
On Mar 27, 2012 6:35 AM, "kitepi...@kitepilot.com
<mailto:kitepi...@kitepilot.com>" <kitepi...@kitepilot.com
<mailto:kitepi...@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"
<waclaw...@mesacc.edu <mailto:waclaw...@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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