I have an Asus ROG Strix GL702ZC its on the high end side and the battery life is terrible, but its got a desktop Ryzen 7 CPU 8 cores 16 threads, a 4GB AMD RX 580 video card, a 17" freesync screen. 32GB of ram,.an SSD, and a hard drive. The thing i like about it is I can easily play games on at higher frame rates than I've ever seen on a laptop (100FPS+ in most games) and it is also a power house for running VM's and containers under Linux. I can easily set up mini clouds on it when I want to test or develop network applications. it also surprisingly is cooled well and I had no issues installing Linux. I've tested it with RHEL and Fedora, and I know some one else who has one running Ubuntu. The only bad thing I would say about it running Linux is Asus has not signed on to LVFS yet so firmware updates are not automatic, but can still be done at boot via a usb thumb drive via the BIOS so its safe to blow away the windows partitions :) . By the way don't listen to any one who says Intel CPU's are better for games on a laptop they really cant handle a video card big enough for the slight extra speed on the Intel CPU's to have any noticeable.The new stuff Valve funded the development of for gaming for Linux like the DirectX11 to Vulcan stuff utilizes the extra cores on the AMD CPU's much better than the same game on Windows. Most games using DirectX11 (on Windows or Wine) can only use 2 cores and 4 cores if they are DrectX12, but Vulcan can use more and the AMD video card supports Vulcan on Linux even in the GPL driver now included with newer Linux Kernels.
That said its huge and heavy I often joke about it being more like a Compaq portable than a laptop lol. also the battery life off the charger is less than an hour so it does have some down sides. On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 2:04 PM Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > Please see the list below. These come from a popular press article, but > I cannot post the URL as the university that provides this email > rewrites all URLs, and thus I have no certainty that any URL I post (or > is embedded in any thread to which I respond) will not be corrupted. > > At the end of the popular press account, there are mentions of specific > laptop models. As I do not have the time to research this, but a number > of students want to know, which if any of these are SL 7 compatible > (meaning, all hardware is "supported")? I assume that a larger number > are Ubuntu supported, in that Ubuntu keeps closer to the "bleeding edge" > of Linux hardware support. > > Thanks for any specific information. > > Yasha Karant > > Excerpt: > > How to buy a gaming laptop > They're cheaper, lighter and more powerful than ever before. > Devindra Hardawar > > If your priority is smooth gameplay, I'd recommend a laptop with a > 15.6-inch 1080p screen and either NVIDIA's GTX 1060 or 1070 Max-Q GPU. > The former will run most games well at 60fps and beyond, while the 1070 > will let you reach even higher frame rates and better-quality graphics > settings. Mid-range machines like HP's Omen and some of Dell's Alienware > models are a good start. If you've got a slightly bigger budget, you > should consider laptops with high-refresh-rate screens: MSI's GS65 > Stealth Thin, Gigabyte's Aero 15X, Razer's Blade and pricier Alienware > configuration. > > But if you're on a budget, stick to machines with the GTX 1050, 1050Ti > or 1060 Max-Q, like Dell's G3 and G5 series. You won't get > high-refresh-rate monitors with these, but they'll have enough > horsepower to reach a silky 60fps. They're ideal if you're mainly > playing MOBA titles and undemanding games like Overwatch. > > It's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of options today, but that > variety is ultimately a good thing. What was once a category filled with > huge, ugly monstrosities now includes genuinely gorgeous machines that > aren't much heavier than a MacBook Pro. >
