Hi, I bought a Dell Inspiron 7359 and just put my own Ubuntu on it. Works fine. I also did that with a Lenovo Carbon X1. Both these companies do not seem to sell Ubuntu version of hardware here in Australia.
You can go to http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/ and see what hardware is certified to run Ubuntu. No guarantees that the downloaded version of Ubuntu has all the proper hardware drivers (vendors can often ship proprietary hardware drivers with the laptop). If you can find a similar variety that only comes with Windows, it would probably run Ubuntu just fine. System76 will ship to .au, but it's pricey (so is shipping). There are a few overseas companies that sell and ship Ubuntu laptops to .au, but the shipping price kills it for me. On 13/06/16 18:04, Anil Gulati wrote: > I've been looking at getting an Intel Skylake NUC 6i5 because I can get > one with 32 GB RAM and a fast 2,200 MB/s NVMe PCiE M.2 SSD for under > AU$1000. > But then I hesitated because if I get a laptop I can be mobile, I'm not > dependent on having a monitor and keyboard set up somewhere. > But who sells Linux laptops in Australia, or even the world? > > After slowly researching for months I'm now of the opinion that I should > only buy from System 76 or Zareason, because all the main stream > suppliers are lame. > > There was news in Jan/Feb that woo hoo the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition > ("the world's best Windows laptop") was available with Ubuntu, nice high > spec and slim form factor. The news article said that Dell is selling > the 5th gen CPUs at a discount because Skylake was coming. It's selling > it like there's a channel and a market and waiting list. > > Getting on to Dell.com.au <http://Dell.com.au> I can indeed find an XPS > 13 Developer Edition but it says no longer available, and click through > to the replacement provides Windows 10 only. Vapourware. > > Amazingly, after getting on to Dell chat, it took two operators over > half an hour to admit there was another Dell Linux laptop available > http://pilot.search.dell.com/precision, Ubuntu of course, but at around > $3000 for 6i5 16GB RAM and no specs on the speed of the 1TB SSD were > available (PDF spec sheet link gave server error). And it looked like > these would come from US anyway. > > The chat read like the Norwegian Blue Python sketch. Does Dell have any > Linux laptops? Well . . . > > Lenovo has Linux laptops . . . then I find the news article is dated 2007. > > I'm not happy with the support and commitment I'm seeing from main > vendors and there doesn't seem to be value for money if they have an > offering at all. Is this correct? > > My judgement is that I pretty much have to buy either System 76 or > Zareason, they are the best value all round, and there is no Australian > provider. Can anyone tell me if that's correct? > > I'm also wondering why there isn't a prominent Ubuntu page that says > this as well? I've seen Ubuntu has made attempts at providing hardware > selection channel before but it seems to have petered out? Isn't this > the most important thing to provide after Ubuntu itself? Which hardware > to buy to install on? > > -- Software Engineer System Enablement, Canonical Ltd QtSystemInfo, QtSensors maintainer -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
