Thanks everyone for the advice! I will definitely checkout Lenovo. And I may have to increase my budget from $400 to something a bit higher. Thank you, Nicholas Stewart
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/27/2015 09:17 AM, Nicholas Stewart wrote: >> I've been running Ubuntu for a few years on a vm on osx. I'm thinking >> of buying a new laptop or desktop and formatting it to run Ubuntu >> 15.10. >> >> Is there anything I need to be aware of or watch out for? For >> example, a few years ago I had problems with broadcom wireless cards >> while running ubuntu. I'd hate to buy a new $400 laptop and have >> issues getting Ubuntu on it. > > If your price point is more like $1000, System76 sells laptops preloaded > with Ubuntu (you can change it out if you want) and they make sure they > have hardware that's more or less compatible. At least that's what my > podcasts have been telling me lately! Seriously, though, it sounds like > they go to a lot of work to make sure you get a good laptop that's > compatible with Linux. > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
