I will add another Linux friendly shop to consider. Full disclosure, I used to work there several years ago.
eRacks Open Source Systems, they are based in CA, so shipping to OR should be fairly quick. Interesting little side note, I was the one who initiated the laptop line way back when (did the hardware compatibility testing, research, availability of different models, etc etc). As you can probably guess by their name the bread and butter of their business is rackmount servers. They of course have modern laptops now, including a couple nice looking high end models, with NVidia GPU and Intel Ivy Bridge CPU, and your choice of Linux. They are not tied to any one distro. http://eracks.com/products/laptops/ FWIW I still have my eRacks Centrino laptop, from the first run, it is a bit of a dinosaur now but still runs fine, I have Mint 13 on it. ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:34 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 02:48:27 -0700 > C W <[email protected]> dijo: > > >System76 only supports Ubuntu. Zareason https://zareason.com supports > >several distros. Think Penguin https://www.thinkpenguin.com is > >extremely flexible about what distros they support. > > Think Penguin doesn't offer anything high end. Zareason, however, I > find to be far more interesting. I have actually seen and played with a > Zareason for a bit as someone brought one to the Clinic a few months > ago. Very impressive machine. It booted straight Ubuntu from cold in 12 > seconds (I timed it). Who needs suspend? But the USB 3.0 ports are all > right up front > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
