On 10/4/14, Phil Wyett philwyett@aura-tech-systems.co.uk wrote:
My intention is to run CentOS 6.x and VM Windows and any other OS etc. After discarding many options I seem to have settled with an eye on a HP ProBook 455 G2.
http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=G6W43EA&opt=ABU&se...
This system has legacy BIOS options if you read the manuals and does mention linux quite a bit. There is info about Ubuntu and below is a link to the laptop on Ubuntu certification site.
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201404-14968/components/
If anyone is running CentOS on this series of laptop, I would very much like to hear your experiences!
I don't run C6 on this series but having tried both C6 and C7 on a HP Touchsmart with AMD/ATI GPU, my suggestion echos others in the thread, stay away from AMD graphics for laptops. C7 works fine, once I got proprietary AMD drivers installed and remembered to recompile them after a kernel version jump.