[CentOS] Ultrabook for CentOS?

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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.