i have a Dell Inspiron 6400 (Centrino Duo, Intel GMA graphics, intel wifi) and Ubuntu runs splendidly on there -- better than Windows Vista by a long shot :) The graphics card, while not being high end has free software drivers that support OpenGL programs fairly nicely. Barring the screen not turning back on when the lid is opened (happens very occasionally or when running some OpenGL applications), probably a bug in the Xorg drivers, I have had no problems with it. Dell support have provided fairly good support too, even though I am not running Windows (I had a hard disc fault that showed itself after a month) -- after a short call to Tech support they were happy to overnight courier me a replacement part; and even offered to send a technician on site to reinstall Windows (which I declined). Highly recommended. -- Sam On 4/26/07, Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> wrote:
Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Hello,
I am interested in buying a laptop. A key requirement would be that it ran Linux (Kubuntu) smoothly and that all the hardware was supported, not neccessarily by *open* source drivers as binary drivers would be okay eg NVIDIA drivers.
I would be interested to read comments on what would might be a good model or vendor and advice on hardware options that definitely struggle to work?
I realise that there are all sorts of websites for advice but sometimes the models aren't readily avaiable here. If someone has recently bought a laptop that they are really happy with Linux wise, I'd be interested to know.
Options I am interested in moderately large screen, nvidia graphics card, intel duo and linux support camera and wifi.
Thoughts, comments appreciated.
I have a Dell Precision M65 (core duo, nvidia, intel wifi) and I am very happy with it using Kubuntu (currently on 6.10, but was good with 6.06 too).
However I don't need the modem, IR, or firewire so I've never bothered to see if those work.
The only setup customisation I needed was xorg.conf so that it would auto detect whether it has an external monitor attached and configure appropriately.
Glenn
-- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz
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