Been digging up the Ubuntu forums and finding as much information as I can to make the most informed choice. I found this thread which seems to be very informative.
Showing posts with label Lenovo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lenovo. Show all posts
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Prepping for War
I had asked around for other laptops I could get without the wretched Microsoft Tax and they are: HP G4-2123TX and G4-2129TX. Overall, the specifications look good except for the fact that they use AMD Radeon cards, which I have vowed never to ever buy again, and that Ubuntu support is rather mysterious.
To me, it looks like the Lenovo G480 has comparable specs to the G4-2123TX laptop but looks and sounds like it'll work better. The nVIDIA graphics chip is also a neat bonus on top of it. So, I've begun digging up as much as I can over its hardware compatibility woes. The only one I've seen is the lack of the alx driver for the network interface card. Here are the additional details on the issue and the solution from the Ubuntu launchpad ticket.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
A New Laptop for a New Year
The Great Hunt is on. With my old faithful Acer Aspire on its last breaths, I felt that I needed to look for a new laptop that provided me with some performance and portability plus comes with a blank OS or Ubuntu pre-installed. This is a tough order as most machines here come with Microsoft stuff tacked on. I found a reasonably priced Lenovo G480 that comes with no OS and while I feel like I could roll the dice for this machine, I've read threads about its compatibility woes with Ubuntu, at least with 12.04.
All this has made me go through Ubuntu's rather useless site of certified hardware. The website is rather useless when it comes to searching for performance equipment, so I had to do some Google magic on it. My preliminary list of target hardware are:
i5 CPU Laptop
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530
Ubuntu friendly just don't cut the mustard anymore for me. I'm looking to zip and go so I'm hoping to see what the machine specs are. Hopefully they are sold here without an OS too!
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