On 24 January 2011 08:46, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbpli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16/01/2011 17:39, George Tripp wrote: >> >> Up to now I've put Ubuntu on ancient PCs I already had. Currently I'm >> thinking >> about getting a laptop but don't want to spend my hard earned cash find >> I've >> bought something that can't run the operating system I wish to. >> >> Looked at a couple of companies which will sell machines without any op >> system. >> Pcspecialists: apparently there's a problem that the touchhpad doesn't >> work with >> ubuntu >> Novatech: don't know if their hardware is compatible with ubuntu or not >> >> Looked round PC World a few machines there look reasonable spec/price but >> don't >> appear on the Ubuntu-certified hardware list. >> >> What do other people do? Any advice? >> >> >> > I've had two Toshiba Satellite laptops in sequence, the current one being > about two years old now, and both ran Ubuntu flawlessly. (Neither had a > built in webcam though...) >
I'm on a Toshiba Satellite approaching it's 4th birthday, and I love it as much as the day I got it :) 4 years ago things were more fiddly to get running, but everything works out of the box nowadays. Except the internal card reader... the TI drivers for it seem incredibly buggy :( I'd imagine newer models are completely different hardware though. Regards, Matthew -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
