On 08/17/2013 08:40 PM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
hello,
over the past year, I bought a lot of laptops and I insist on running
Centos on all of them.
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* the worst are Asus X55-A and Dell Vostro 3460 that have Atheros
network cards. * I never tried Ati Radeon on Centos because of bad
experience on Opensuse. But maybe it works Nvidia will sometimes require
extra software for use with external monitor or beamer. So I agree on
you with the intel graphics. * The thing is, if you spend some 600
Euro's, you more often than not end up with in the best case some
Broadcom cards that can be made to work given some effort. In worst case
with Atheros cards that require some magic to make them work. * imho if
you buy a laptop that has Intel HD graphics, Intel network card and
Intel wireless card, it will work out of the Centos box. but those are
too expensive for me. Greetings, J. Op 16-08-13 18:06, carlopmart schreef:
Hi all,
First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my
work. My prerequisites are:
- RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB)
- Processor: Core i7
- Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD.
- Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon
graphics cards).
The most important tasks will be:
- Surf the web :)
- Read email
- And the Most important task: I need to install complete virtual test
labs on it using KVM, Xen and VMware suites to run several different
types of OSes: RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Solaris-like, BSD, Windows 2012/2008
R2, etc.
I purchased (20 months ago) and use an ASUS G73S - this has an Core i7,
I loaded it with 16GB of RAM, and added a 64GB SSD to the already
installed 500GB HDD. It has a great screen, blueray DVD writer and a
high end Nvidia graphics card.
It is running CentOS 6.4 and with some help from elrepo the keyboard
backlight works along with most of the function keys. Network both wired
and wireless worked out of the box. It boots from SSD in less than 30
seconds - all in all it has been a great machine.
The only weakness has been the touchpad, and this has been an issue with
the machine construction and impacts all OS's. If I am doing lots of
work I use a hardware rodent and disable the touchpad (function key for
this does not work yet).
I have used ASUS MB for years and like them alot, this laptop is the
first ASUS purchase for me, but I would buy it again.
HTH
Any suggestions?? My first choice will be Toshiba or Lenovo laptops and
of course it needs to be 100% compatible with CentOS6 (or almost at 95%).
Thanks.
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