On 10/4/14, Phil Wyett <philwyett at 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&sel=PBNB > > 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.