[ubuntu-in] Budget Laptop for Linux

[Narendra Diwate]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Hardik Dalwadi
<hardik.dalwadi at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 June 2011 09:46 AM, Narendra Diwate wrote:
> >  I am thinking of buying a Budget Laptop (About 25K INR, Not Netbook, so
> > NO Atom or similar). Towards that end, because I want it to be fully
> > compatible with Linux, was looking at Ubuntus page of supported/tested
> > hardware (http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/). I find that Lenovo and
> > Dell have the most models that are supposed to work well with Ubuntu. I
> > assume broadly that this is true of all Distos.
>
> @ Marendra,
>
> Do you mean to say that Lenovo / Dell machines listed on Ubuntu
> Certified site would work with other distros? If yes, then it's not true
> so far, extra efforts are going to certify those machines and in few
> cases (Where you will find "Pre-Installed Only" tag), OEM is providing
> the dedicated / customized Ubuntu Image for the same. And also, if it is
> listed on Ubuntu Certification site, then, machine certified with that
> particular release will also work out of the box for future updates,
> provided by that particular release.
>

Thanks for that clarification. Although I knew there will be some
differences, I was of the opinion that they might be minor in difficulty.

What major difficulties might we face when installing to the models that
mention "Pre-Installed Only"? Are the difficulties not easily resolved?
-- 
Regards

Narendra Diwate
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