I would not advocate buying this laptop if you plan to install Ubuntu. On my system I am running 3.10.0-031000rc5-generic. I find the 20 minute boot problem only happens about 50% of the time rather than 95% of the time, as it did with earlier kernal versions, but still not 0% of the time as I would prefer. I have been unable to get the workaround discussed here to work on my system, perhaps because newer versions of this computer use a bios configuration that does not seem allow the workaround. I have found that if the computer does not boot up, force restarting it into safe mode, shutting down and then restarting in normal mode results in a successful boot most of the time.
Also the following bug http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2043744&p=12461562#post12461562 still exists for 12.04 meaning you can't use the right click button on the mouse-pad, which is also kind of annoying. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1093217 Title: Ubuntu 12.04/12.10/13.04 10-20min boot delay (From 3.2.0.29->3.8.0.19) [Lenovo IdeaPad Z580] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1093217/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
