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Has anyone experience with Asus k53e i3 notebook or acer

F�ona — Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:19 pm

Author: F�ona

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:19 pm

I want to buy a notebook before the uefi boards take over and was thinking of the asus k53e i3 or the acer 5750G. Does anyone have experience with, or tips on these machines?

Thanks

Linux Laptops

chris0161 — Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:00 pm

Author: chris0161

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:00 pm

Just found an American company with Ubuntu pre-installed called System 76

https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/lemu4

Here ia a review on OMG Ubuntu:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/hands-on-with-the-system76-lemur-ultra-ubuntu-laptop

Re: Laptop recommendations

Ram — Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:22 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:22 pm

tweetiepooh wrote:

I like IBM/Levano for Linux as they have a 3 button "mouse" and that extra button really helps.

You get the same effect pressing both buttons together.

Re: Laptop recommendations

tweetiepooh — Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:16 pm

Author: tweetiepooh

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:16 pm

I like IBM/Levano for Linux as they have a 3 button "mouse" and that extra button really helps.

Re: Laptop recommendations

Paradigm Shifter — Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:49 pm

Author: Paradigm Shifter

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:49 pm

pk_fox wrote:

Blimey big premium, will check it out , thanks

Office 2010 is the culprit there. The more full-featured versions are extortionate unless you have a need for their features (most people will get by OK with Word/Excel/Powerpoint)...

...

I've had two Acer laptops, neither of which have played very well with linux. Dell has had a better track record for me (Studio 17) where (and I pause before saying this) "it just works" with both a RedHat based distro (Scientific Linux) and a Debian distro (Ubuntu) all hardware works, wifi behaves itself, Bluetooth, etc...

Re: Laptop recommendations

ajgreeny — Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:49 pm

Author: ajgreeny

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:49 pm

This looks a pretty good way to go as well, and you can play around with specs online and see the cost change. They also supply with no OS if you don't want one.
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

Re: Laptop recommendations

carl_h — Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:47 am

Author: carl_h

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:47 am

I had a Dell 1300 Inspiron for several years, that ran Ubuntu perfectly.

Re: Laptop recommendations

pk_fox — Tue May 15, 2012 9:45 pm

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:45 pm

einonm wrote:

If you're looking for a laptop with no Wintax(TM), then I can heartily recommend Novatech http://www.novatech.co.uk. I've had three laptops from there, for myself and family, and have had almost no problems with them (I've had a slight issue with one touchpad not being a synaptics one, but sentelic, and the driver had a few bugs) - I also run Fedora exclusively.

Best of all, they're based in the UK and have a few stores dotted around the UK as well as the usual internet shop.

If I were to say anything bad about them, the laptop housings on some of their own-branded machines feels a little cheap and flimsy, but I fortunately haven't dropped one yet to find out if this is actually the case.

(You can also play on the website and see how much they add on to the prices for Windoze - for example, one PC at �290 with no OS is as much as �690 with Win7 ultimate + office2010!)

Blimey big premium, will check it out , thanks

Re: Laptop recommendations

einonm — Tue May 15, 2012 6:13 pm

Author: einonm

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:13 pm

If you're looking for a laptop with no Wintax(TM), then I can heartily recommend Novatech http://www.novatech.co.uk. I've had three laptops from there, for myself and family, and have had almost no problems with them (I've had a slight issue with one touchpad not being a synaptics one, but sentelic, and the driver had a few bugs) - I also run Fedora exclusively.

Best of all, they're based in the UK and have a few stores dotted around the UK as well as the usual internet shop.

If I were to say anything bad about them, the laptop housings on some of their own-branded machines feels a little cheap and flimsy, but I fortunately haven't dropped one yet to find out if this is actually the case.

(You can also play on the website and see how much they add on to the prices for Windoze - for example, one PC at �290 with no OS is as much as �690 with Win7 ultimate + office2010!)

Re: Lenovo & Dell

pk_fox — Mon May 07, 2012 11:13 am

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:13 am

mediamgl wrote:

My main laptop is a Lenovo X220 and I have been running Ubuntu (11.04, 11.10 and 12.04) on it for the past 10 months or so. I have also played around with CrunchBang and Arch; both also seem fine on this particular hardware.

I would definitely consider another Lenovo when the time comes for a personal hardware refresh.

Ubuntu has a certified hardware page, with some of the most recent Lenovo and Dell laptops identified, if you're interested:

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/

^Hope this helps.

I'm hearing Lenovo a lot - thanks for your time I will check the link

Lenovo & Dell

mediamgl — Sun May 06, 2012 8:29 pm

Author: mediamgl

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:29 pm

My main laptop is a Lenovo X220 and I have been running Ubuntu (11.04, 11.10 and 12.04) on it for the past 10 months or so. I have also played around with CrunchBang and Arch; both also seem fine on this particular hardware.

I would definitely consider another Lenovo when the time comes for a personal hardware refresh.

Ubuntu has a certified hardware page, with some of the most recent Lenovo and Dell laptops identified, if you're interested:

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/

^Hope this helps.

Re: Laptop recommendations

pk_fox — Sat May 05, 2012 9:26 am

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:26 am

Thanks people - keep em comin

Re: Laptop recommendations

Rhakios — Fri May 04, 2012 9:42 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:42 pm

I recently (well January, to be accurate) bought a cheapish Toshiba Satellite C660-2EL, which works fine with Xubuntu 12.04. There have been some dodgy periods where the wifi hasn't worked very well, but it's settled down now and seems fine.
In general, going for anything with Intel hardware gives pretty good support (indeed, I would probably have had less trouble with wifi if it had an Intel wireless card on board).

Re: Laptop recommendations

towy71 — Fri May 04, 2012 9:24 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:24 pm

I don't have one of their computers but try here Linuxemporium for Linux pre-installed or buy one from Lenovo and install Linux yourself

Re: Laptop recommendations

nordle — Fri May 04, 2012 9:01 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:01 pm

Advised my dad to buy a Lenovo (he didn't want to spend more than �400 in 2008).
It's been very good.

Of course this is no help at all, no model number and not very recent. But if I was buying, I'd look at their latest range and google those to see whats what.

There is a linuxlaptop website too, can't remember exactly.