Hello,
I need to buy an ultrabook. Any recommendations for something that would work out of the box more or less? I do not want a Chromebook (or anything ARM) or one of these new "touch" laptops, in fact I'm after a nice matte screen. Budget is modest-ish (£500/$800) so dont go crazy. :)
Thanks!
I have Asus U32U, and CentOS works fine on it ;)
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Hello,
I need to buy an ultrabook. Any recommendations for something that would work out of the box more or less? I do not want a Chromebook (or anything ARM) or one of these new "touch" laptops, in fact I'm after a nice matte screen. Budget is modest-ish (£500/$800) so dont go crazy. :)
Thanks!
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:54:24PM +0100, Fabrizio Di Carlo wrote:
I have Asus U32U, and CentOS works fine on it ;)
I have the older UX31E, which also works with CentOS. I _might_ have had to get a driver from elrepo for wired, but wireless worked out of the box. It has an ASIX USB to ethernet dongle.
On 11/27/2013 07:26 AM, Nux! wrote:
Hello,
I need to buy an ultrabook. Any recommendations for something that would work out of the box more or less? I do not want a Chromebook (or anything ARM) or one of these new "touch" laptops, in fact I'm after a nice matte screen. Budget is modest-ish (£500/$800) so dont go crazy. :)
Thanks!
The Lenovo ThinkPad X series all seem to work very well with CentOS/RHEL.
On 27/11/2013 15:01, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 11/27/2013 07:26 AM, Nux! wrote:
Hello,
I need to buy an ultrabook. Any recommendations for something that would work out of the box more or less? I do not want a Chromebook (or anything ARM) or one of these new "touch" laptops, in fact I'm after a nice matte screen. Budget is modest-ish (£500/$800) so dont go crazy. :)
Thanks!
The Lenovo ThinkPad X series all seem to work very well with CentOS/RHEL.
Yes - Although they are pricey - if money were no object I'd go for a nice X series.
On 27/11/13 13:26, Nux! wrote:
Hello,
I need to buy an ultrabook. Any recommendations for something that would work out of the box more or less? I do not want a Chromebook (or anything ARM) or one of these new "touch" laptops, in fact I'm after a nice matte screen. Budget is modest-ish (£500/$800) so dont go crazy. :)
Thanks!
Dell XPS 13 ultrabook works fine with RHEL6/CentOS6 out of the box. It does have a glossy screen though.
You can get some very good prices on refurbished models through Dell Outlet for around the £500 mark as opposed to over £1000 new. You should be able to pick up a Core i5, 8GB RAM, SSD and full HD display for around £500 but you sometimes have to wait for the exact spec you want to become available (and they do get snapped up quickly).
Dell XPS 13 has the advantage to be in the market with a special version of Ubuntu made for engineers, called project Sputnik
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Ned Slider ned@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
On 27/11/13 13:26, Nux! wrote:
Hello,
I need to buy an ultrabook. Any recommendations for something that would work out of the box more or less? I do not want a Chromebook (or anything ARM) or one of these new "touch" laptops, in fact I'm after a nice matte screen. Budget is modest-ish (£500/$800) so dont go crazy. :)
Thanks!
Dell XPS 13 ultrabook works fine with RHEL6/CentOS6 out of the box. It does have a glossy screen though.
You can get some very good prices on refurbished models through Dell Outlet for around the £500 mark as opposed to over £1000 new. You should be able to pick up a Core i5, 8GB RAM, SSD and full HD display for around £500 but you sometimes have to wait for the exact spec you want to become available (and they do get snapped up quickly).
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On 11/28/2013 07:29 AM, Fabrizio Di Carlo wrote:
Dell XPS 13 has the advantage to be in the market with a special version of Ubuntu made for engineers, called project Sputnik
... and is sold at a higher price than the exact same model that sells with Windows preloaded. Go Figure.
I actually think the formfactor and the overall build for the XPS 14 is a sweeter machine than the xps 13.
btw, the toshiba z930 are also very nice. Matt screen, very light ( its lighter than the Macbook Air ), 128gb ssd, 12gb ram, hdmi and vga out, with a proper ethernet port and a built in 4g modem, 7 hrs battery - runs CentOS-6 out of the box - absolutely everything works stock on the i5 model ( i dont know / havent looked at the i7 ones ), PCWorld had it on sale two weeks ago at £580 - I paid £745 for mine, which included 3 yrs warranty.
- KB
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 01:19:08PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 11/28/2013 07:29 AM, Fabrizio Di Carlo wrote:
Dell XPS 13 has the advantage to be in the market with a special version of Ubuntu made for engineers, called project Sputnik
... and is sold at a higher price than the exact same model that sells with Windows preloaded. Go Figure.
I remember when Dell first sold Ubuntu loaded laptops. At that time, it seemed that reason the Linux ones were more expensive was because they had slightly different specs, such as an Intel wireless card, which was working with Linux, whereas the Windows machines would have a Broadcom card, which, at the time, was often problematic.
On 28/11/13 13:34, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 01:19:08PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 11/28/2013 07:29 AM, Fabrizio Di Carlo wrote:
Dell XPS 13 has the advantage to be in the market with a special version of Ubuntu made for engineers, called project Sputnik
... and is sold at a higher price than the exact same model that sells with Windows preloaded. Go Figure.
I remember when Dell first sold Ubuntu loaded laptops. At that time, it seemed that reason the Linux ones were more expensive was because they had slightly different specs, such as an Intel wireless card, which was working with Linux, whereas the Windows machines would have a Broadcom card, which, at the time, was often problematic.
The same is still true. Making sure one chooses an Intel wireless chipset would be high on my list of priorities if you plan to use wireless on Linux.
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