I have been only used dell for the past 10 years, and never had any issues. I currenty have a Dell vostro 1520, which works out of the box with Debian testing. I run Windows in vmplayer when I have to use it. Mark On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > Same with Dell, they employ guys like Mario Limonciello supporting their > hardware that does a lot of compatibility testing and pushes fixes > internally with dell for bios and other vendor-supported features. I'd do > quick compat checks before buy, but Dell is usually a pretty safe option > for linux support I find. > > I'd gone with a HP Elitebook for pure power (and 4 dimm slots for cheap > 16gb ram) and other than raw performance, it's been an disaster for linux > support. ACPI and bios disk functions are broken at best, and they will > never fix them because their "userbase is too small". How about just > making hardware that doesn't suck? Perfect example of a vendor parasite > around linux - happy to use it to sell servers, but nothing else. > > -mb > > > > On 03/27/2012 07:01 AM, Stephen wrote: > >> Good machines that tend to work if not support Linux is sager notebooks. >> >> On Mar 27, 2012 6:35 AM, "kitepilot@kitepilot.com >> >" < >> kitepilot@kitepilot.com >> >> >> wrote: >> >> 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.__phoe**nix.az.us >> >> > >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az._**_us/mailman/listinfo/plug-__** >> discuss >> > discuss > >> >> ------------------------------**__--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.__phoe**nix.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 >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > 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 >