Laptop recommendation for specific requirements - Page 2

stevea · #16 30th August 2012, 10:54 AM

I appreciate your sensibility to drop the optical drive. These are a PITA, they don't last and it's ridiculously expensive to replace a laptop DVD. Given that I use one ~4 times a year on laptop I'd rather plugin a $30 USB model..

My personal concern with a Samsung is the KB. You may want to try one to see how that KB feels under your fingers.

***Dan*** · #17 30th August 2012, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by fetchinson

What do you mean? The thing is that I don't need fancy graphics at all, so if linux can't take full advantage of the gpu that's fine with me. The only thing I need is for it to work on a basic level which I guess it will do under linux as well, won't it?

What specific concerns do you have? ...

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=279265

You're on the right track with the Intel video on laptops. Less heat, no proprietary drivers, better integration and less weight.

stevea · #18 30th August 2012, 02:48 PM

There are both Intel vs ATI vid models of the Samsung 700 (same suffix I think!).

I used to believe that Nvidia was better supporting of Linux than ATI - but they both seem to massively not-care. Only Intel is playing in the right ballpark, but their performance is weak (tho' improving steadily).

fetchinson · #19 2nd September 2012, 07:05 PM

Thanks again for all the responses. Actually I haven't found a samsung 700 model which would only come with an integrated graphics chip, the ATI chip it seems is mandatory.

Since now I try avoiding ATI I came up with Lenovo U410. This is suboptimal in that it has an nvidia graphics chip (an integrated would be fine) but otherwise it seems okay.

Anyone has F17 experiences on Lenovo U410?

smr54 · #20 2nd September 2012, 07:14 PM

A quick google indicates some (probably solvable) issues with UEFI.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2023374

http://www.melaneum.com/blog/linux/i...-a-lenovo-u410

Seems to describe it well.

fetchinson · #21 3rd September 2012, 08:20 AM

Yes, that's what I found too.
UEFI and disk problems but all reports are on ubuntu and the solutions are also ubuntu-specific as far as I can tell (installing/removing ubuntu packages).
I guess I'll start a new thread