On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Randy Stapilus <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife, who has been using a MacBook (now almost 7 years old), has decided > she'd like her next notebook to use Linux Ubuntu. I've been using it for > years and been happy with it, and have installed Ubuntu on both a laptop > and a desktop. Dual booting with Windows might be useful but not at all > necessary - neither us have any plans to use Windows on the machine. The > question now, in these days of Windows 8 and UEFI, is, what would be a good > notebook to use, and whether dual booting is even much practical, or > whether getting a machine with no OS or one with Ubuntu pre-installed would > be a good idea. Preferably in somewhere near PDX, though we're open to > shipping. Budget runs up to $600 or so. > > Today we picked up a Lenovo ideapad Z585, which I was told ought to work > for dual booting. But that's been a generic statement, and information > about making it happen has been spotty. Until I'm confident of an Ubuntu > install the box will not be opened.
Ubuntu supports UEFI.... The developer who added that support lives right here in Portland. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI >Indications via web searching so far > are mixed. (I don't care to pay the $70+ restocking fee imposed once the > box is opened.) If I can't so satisfy myself, it goes back to the store. > I've been googling the subject, and comments on dual booting w/Windows 8 > (and UEFI), from the Ubuntu site and elsewhere, seem to be all over the > map. Any thoughts, or this machine or others? I'm a fan of Dell Hardware and like their new XPS 13 (Ubuntu pre-installed) although thats out of the range you suggested... That being said I have also tried out System76 and love their Pangolin notebook. > > -- Benjamin Kerensa http://benjaminkerensa.com "I am what I am because of who we all are" - Ubuntu _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
