While I'm using a MacBook Pro as my primary machine at the moment, I have a Lenovo Thinkpad with Ubuntu without any problems. The key is to select video and wifi to be Intel. You can upgrade the wifi module later, if Intel is not working out for you (highly suggest any Atheros-based module), but Intel for video is what you want. Do not select dual graphics cards or anything fancy like that.
While playing games on an Intel video card is not the best, when it comes to driver support, it's the simplest thing since it's just works. You can buy custom-build Linux laptops, there are many alternatives that are great, but I can always find a good deal on Lenovo site, especially at this time of the year. As far as software, server stuff runs better for me. I live in terminal and Chrome, so I don't have many demands. Running Rails or a Ruby library is really easy. Compiling Qt for something like capybara is dead simple. Hope this helps. Misha 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.
