On 03/21/2012 11:36 AM, Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On 03/20/2012 06:09 PM, Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
>>> RAM/Processor/Graphics card: Will not be playing any graphic intensive
>>> game, just want a decent to good performance (don’t want to pay extra for
>>> “awesome” graphics).  Intel i3 with 2GB RAM is what I am thinking about,
>>> and am not averse to AMD.
>> I'm sure you need a decent graphics card to watch even regular/VHS videos.
>>
>> I assumed this is available in all laptops, do you mean it is not ?
>
>>  > Extra features: Webcam, Bluetooth, microphone should work with Ubuntu,
>>  good
>>> speakers with loud enough sound.
>> Try building bootable USB/Memstick image from an Ubuntu (better
>> LinuxMint ISO) and keep it in your pocket while you go for a final deal.
>> Boot off of this the machine you want to buy, see if all the things work
>> as per your expectations. Hope that helps.
>>
>> Sounds like common sense, but honestly this did not occur to me. Thank you
> very much.
> If LinuxMint works perfectly fine, will Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04 too work for
> me ?

Yeah, LinuxMint provides non-free codes and is some easy for beginners;
you can build a similar image for Ubuntu as well, but this will/can
prevent you test HD and, or other youtube videos of from the box.

-- 
Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman
(http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)


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