On 13 October 2012 18:00, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > I'm looking at the inevitable replacement of my 4 year old Toshiba Satellite > laptop in the near future and am looking at purchasing a laptop > pre-installed. > I'm having grave difficulties finding any vendors in the UK other than Linux > Emporium - are there any others?
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 Beta on a PC Specialist Genesis IV [0] (with a core i5 processor and onboard graphics) with only a few minor problems. It is not available with Ubuntu pre-installed but is available with no OS. There is a problem with the screen brightness function keys [1] but there is a workaround and a fix has been released. The only other problem I have had is with the SD card reader [2] but again the workaround works. It is based on a Clevo laptop and reports itself as a W240EU/W250EUQ/W270EUQ. I believe that the System76 machines are also based on Clevo units. Colin [0] http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/genesisIV/ [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/806032 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/971876 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
