I would stay away from System76. Bad BAD (and costly) experience... ET PS: YMMV... Stephen writes: > The other option is a vendor like system76 they have a good bang for buck > value. Or maybe red 7. > > But the instant you add discrete graphics your battery life goes way down. > > Also the dell latitudes support linux quite well. Just not in an official > sense. > On Mar 27, 2012 12:46 AM, "Phillip Waclawski" wrote: > >> I have one of the Dell Ubuntu Laptops from about 6 years ago (yes, they >> did sell 1420n inspirons with linux pre-installed :). It still works, but >> the Intel Graphics card doesn't support Opengl very well, so that makes >> Blender, openshot and other programs on linux a pain, and things like >> wacraft literally impossible. >> >> So, I've been thinking about >> http://zareason.com/shop/Strata-6770.html decked out to the point I >> want is about $1400, but the 6 cell battery with maybe 3 hours of battery >> life...ugh >> http://zareason.com/shop/Verix-2.5.html with a few upgrades goes to >> $2300 or so, everything I could want, but nearly $900 more. >> >> I know you pay a bit of a premium going with a non top tier vendor that >> supports linux, but I've heard good things about them, and enjoyed their >> talk on "RetroGnome" at SCALE X. >> >> What do folks think? And what other laptop vendors that support Linux >> (with good NVidia graphics cards in them, I won't do Intel graphics ever >> again). >> >> Thanks >> Phil Waclawski >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss