pc/laptop

[raymond house]

Yes, after reading all I could find I came to the same conclusion as you
llija, thanks,  Ray

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, there isn't much info on P300 out there, so I'd recommend eating the
> Winblows tax and running it under dual boot, unless you have an extra hard
> drive lying around. Not much solid info on Toshibas, especially P300 out
> there. Most of the info is for older versions before the way they changed
> the way Ubuntu handles hardware and did a f***load of bug fixes. I'd be
> cautiously optimistic. If nobody's complaining while running a newer
> version, everything could run out of the box...
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thank you all for all the helping info you have given me, this laptop is a
>> Toshiba satellite p300 for my daughter. What I will do is install Ubuntu
>> along side of Widows 7 and with time we will see if all the hardware works
>> ok with Ubuntu and then dump the other OS.  Ray
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> By the way, I would just go down your laptop's list of specs to see how
>>> they play with Ubuntu.. The biggest will be graphics and wireless.. You
>>> should also check suspend/resume.. Everything else should work just fine.
>>> Actually, I'd start by googling "ubuntu your_laptop_model" Chances are
>>> that there will be a bunch of articles on how to install (stupid-easy) and
>>> what works, needs a tweak, doesn't work.
>>> With my laptop, suspend/resume didn't work and took a bit over a year
>>> until the NVidia driver and the hardware handling made it work. HDMI sound
>>> didn't work last time I checked, but I've been using a little nettop (Aspire
>>> Revo) as a media player and with it, it works like a charm. Built in mic
>>> also didn't work, but that one got fixed in short order.
>>> By the way, don't rely on wireless when installing Ubuntu. With my
>>> chipset, you need to download and install the proprietary broadcom driver
>>> (it's pretty much automatic but you need to be connected via ethernet cable
>>> to be able to do it).
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> "desktop edition" just means it comes with a graphical interface, as
>>>> opposed to the text-mode alternate installer or server edition.
>>>>
>>>>  - Tony
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