Is it worth waiting for a Dell/ASUS/Other-top/ desktop for unimpaired Ubuntu?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Avi Greenbury wrote:

> Donald F. Parsons  wrote:
>
> > I mean without slowing due to installing inside Windows 7, without
> > limitation by the hardware as with Nettop versions, and without too
> > high a cost due to unecessaryly large memory, etc, etc.
> > Is there any definite news?
>
> In the past four or five years I've come across one laptop that had
> difficulty with Ubuntu (An Acer whose touchpad didn't work).
>
> You can, right now, go out and buy a laptop on which you can install
> any modern distro and have everything Just Work. This has been true for
> about five years or so, longer with slightly more care as to which one
> you buy.
>
> What is it that you're missing from what's currently available, and
> what are you expecting one of these manufacturers to do to fix it?

  i'm running 64-bit 12.04 on a kick-ass asus G74S -- full HD display,
1.5TB total disk space, 16G RAM ... i don't have a problem.  of
course, this thing isn't cheap but it worked out of the box.

rday

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