Ubuntu certified hardware: not enough information

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:39 PM, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:27 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> Yes. It seems to be decent for checking the specs of laptops that I am
>> considering, but it is useless for trying to find an appropriate
>> laptop. I suppose that I will have to use it the way that it was
>> intended!
>
> I asked my local LUG about netbooks they'd recommend. I bought a Toshiba
> NB520 from an ebay vendor because like this ancient Satellite that's
> still working, it's got a panel in the base that can be removed with a
> screwdriver to give very easy access to both the memory and the hard
> drive.
>
> I'm waiting for a memory upgrade and a replacement hard drive so that I
> can physically remove the drive with microsoft on it. So, I've been
> playing with 12.04 on a flash drive, but found that WiFi works just
> fine, as does the SD card socket, and 12.04 also appears to know what to
> do with the built in bluetooth although I've not tried to play with that
> one yet.
>
> So, I'd say decide what features you especially want such as easy access
> to the hard drive, and ask your local LUG.

Keep in mind that memory can be tricky. Here is my case of 2 laptops.
Each had 2 DIMMS DDR2 RAM. Running memtest86+ on them went OK.

Then I swapped their RAMs, and memtest86+ was finding errors on both laptops.

Switched back RAMs, and memtest86+ was running OK on both of them. I
hadn't seen something like this on desktops, ever.

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