On 03/27/2012 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). > I really like the Lenovo T520 (4239CT) I bought last summer. Quad core i7, discrete NVidia video, Bluetooth, 1600x900 display. _Everything_ works under Mageia 1.0 Linux without any fussing around, so I'd expect the same from most distributions.
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