On 10/02/2014 06:57 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
I went to Staples and tried booting it on every model of laptop that they had in the store. They all come with Windows 8 installed, and for the edification of anyone who doesn't know this (I didn't until today) you have to conduct a real song and dance to get to the bios settings on one of those things:
I also wanted to make sure that Linux is supported by my new laptop so I went to the store and booted a live CD. For better hardware support and newer drivers I didn't choose CentOS but Lubuntu LTS.
Luckily, the first laptop, a Toshiba Satellite L50 booted without any issues. WIFI was also working so I took that.
I wouldn't use mail order since I've read that there are different hardware configurations possible, although they're using the same model name.