Hi On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Narendra Diwate <[email protected]> wrote: > I am thinking of buying a Budget Laptop (About 25K INR, Not Netbook, so NO > Atom or similar). Towards that end, because I want it to be fully compatible > with Linux, was looking at Ubuntus page of supported/tested hardware > (http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/). I find that Lenovo and Dell have the > most models that are supposed to work well with Ubuntu. I assume broadly > that this is true of all Distos.
About a year or so back, some friends had pretty similar requirements - an about 25 K full featured laptop. After quite a bit of investigation and writing around we settled on the Lenovo B 450 Series (specs below) LENOVO NB B450-59029506 14.1” Intel Pentium Dual Core (2.10 GHZ)/1 GB RAM DDR-II/160 GB HDD/Intel 5100 Agn (1*2)/ DVDRW Optical Drive /6cellbattery /Bluetooth/Camera/Dos/1 Year Warranty Cost is 24,500 + 5% VAT (Prices as in March 2010) So to address your specs specifically yes > > So these are my requirements: > > 1. Budget of 25K. Yes > 2. Atleast an Intel i3 or its AMD eqivalent. May go for Core2Duo if can't > find one in budget. Yes > 3. Good battery life of atleast 4or5 hours. Decent battery - 3-4 hours > 4. 3GB RAM atleast. 1 GB RAM (upgradeable) > 5. Card Slot, Webcam, Bluetooth, Wifi. Yes > 6. Am looking at as light as possible in this budget, so if it comes with an > Optical drive to reduce size/weight, so be it. Pretty light - and since its a 14.1" inch screen > 7. Atleast 250GB HDD. 160 GB or for a price can be upgraded > 8. Know to work with Debian/Ubuntu/Linux. Have installed Ubuntu on it and it rocks - its been over a year since we got these laptops and as yet there are no issues The higher up version was LENOVO NB B450-59029513 14.1” Intel Pentium Dual Core (2.10 GHZ)/2 GB RAM DDR-II/320 GB HDD/Intel 5100 Agn (1*2)/ DVDRW Optical Drive /6cellbattery /Bluetooth/Camera/Dos/1 Year Warranty Cost is 27,000 +5% VAT However am sure that these specs and prices have changed but am aware that the B (and maybe G series) are still available. regards ram -- Ram _________________________________________________________ http://www.munsiari.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
