I've had good experiences with system76 laptops: https://www.system76.com/
They build them to work with Ubuntu, and back them up with solid support. If I were going to use Linux as my primary desktop, I'd definitely buy one of their machines. Ron On Friday, November 8, 2013 2:00:20 PM UTC-8, Benjamin Wanicur wrote: > > Hi Ruby Peeps > > I'm considering getting a new laptop, and although I had a great > experience with my last macbook, I'm leaning towards buying something else > and just running linux on it. The fact that everything is soldered to the > logic/mother board on the new macbooks is a real deal-breaker. Also, I'm > not sure I want to support Apple because of their business practices. > > I'd like to hear some suggestions / info about the following topics: > > Best resources for buying a customizable, quality OEM laptop. Especially > if anyone knows of a manufacturer that is US-based. > > Any regrets / joy from anybody switching from OS X to Linux ? > > Any real problem with software running better in the OS X environment ? I > am an Ableton Live user, and supposedly, it runs well on Linux. That is > the only must-have software that I am really worried about. But I would > still like to hear from people about anything else that is problematic. > > > Thanks in advance for your feedback and sorry for the gear-related post. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
