[CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

[Fabrizio Di Carlo]

I have Asus U32U with 8GBs of RAM and 320GBs of HD and everything works
fine (also the HDMI out) except some keys like volume up/down but I think
it's just a issue about config.


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>wrote:

> On 08/17/2013 08:40 PM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> over the past year, I bought a lot of laptops and I insist on running
>> Centos on all of them.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
> </snip>
>
> * the worst are Asus X55-A and Dell Vostro 3460 that have Atheros network
> cards. * I never tried Ati Radeon on Centos because of bad experience on
> Opensuse. But maybe it works Nvidia will sometimes require extra software
> for use with external monitor or beamer. So I agree on you with the intel
> graphics. * The thing is, if you spend some 600 Euro's, you more often than
> not end up with in the best case some Broadcom cards that can be made to
> work given some effort. In worst case with Atheros cards that require some
> magic to make them work. * imho if you buy a laptop that has Intel HD
> graphics, Intel network card and Intel wireless card, it will work out of
> the Centos box. but those are too expensive for me. Greetings, J. Op
> 16-08-13 18:06, carlopmart schreef:
>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>     First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my
>>> work. My prerequisites are:
>>>
>>> - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB)
>>> - Processor: Core i7
>>> - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD.
>>> - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon
>>> graphics cards).
>>>
>>>     The most important tasks will be:
>>>
>>>     - Surf the web :)
>>>     - Read email
>>>     - And the Most important task: I need to install complete virtual
>>> test
>>> labs on it using KVM, Xen and VMware suites to run several different
>>> types of OSes: RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Solaris-like, BSD, Windows 2012/2008
>>> R2, etc.
>>>
>>>  I purchased (20 months ago) and use an ASUS G73S - this has an Core i7,
> I loaded it with 16GB of RAM, and added a 64GB SSD to the already installed
> 500GB HDD. It has a great screen, blueray DVD writer and a high end Nvidia
> graphics card.
> It is running CentOS 6.4 and with some help from elrepo the keyboard
> backlight works along with most of the function keys. Network both wired
> and wireless worked out of the box. It boots from SSD in less than 30
> seconds - all in all it has been a great machine.
> The only weakness has been the touchpad, and this has been an issue with
> the machine construction and impacts all OS's. If I am doing lots of work I
> use a hardware rodent and disable the touchpad (function key for this does
> not work yet).
> I have used ASUS MB for years and like them alot, this laptop is the first
> ASUS purchase for me, but I would buy it again.
> HTH
>
>  Any suggestions?? My first choice will be Toshiba or Lenovo laptops and
>>> of course it needs to be 100% compatible with CentOS6 (or almost at 95%).
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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Fabrizio Di Carlo