pc/laptop

[raymond house]

I just want to add that the laptop was a gift that my daughter got, had I
known I would have suggested they chose won from the Ubuntu certified
hardware list.  Ray

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:56 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, after reading all I could find I came to the same conclusion as you
> llija, thanks,  Ray
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yeah, there isn't much info on P300 out there, so I'd recommend eating the
>> Winblows tax and running it under dual boot, unless you have an extra hard
>> drive lying around. Not much solid info on Toshibas, especially P300 out
>> there. Most of the info is for older versions before the way they changed
>> the way Ubuntu handles hardware and did a f***load of bug fixes. I'd be
>> cautiously optimistic. If nobody's complaining while running a newer
>> version, everything could run out of the box...
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you all for all the helping info you have given me, this laptop is
>>> a Toshiba satellite p300 for my daughter. What I will do is install Ubuntu
>>> along side of Widows 7 and with time we will see if all the hardware works
>>> ok with Ubuntu and then dump the other OS.  Ray
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> By the way, I would just go down your laptop's list of specs to see how
>>>> they play with Ubuntu.. The biggest will be graphics and wireless.. You
>>>> should also check suspend/resume.. Everything else should work just fine.
>>>> Actually, I'd start by googling "ubuntu your_laptop_model" Chances are
>>>> that there will be a bunch of articles on how to install (stupid-easy) and
>>>> what works, needs a tweak, doesn't work.
>>>> With my laptop, suspend/resume didn't work and took a bit over a year
>>>> until the NVidia driver and the hardware handling made it work. HDMI sound
>>>> didn't work last time I checked, but I've been using a little nettop (Aspire
>>>> Revo) as a media player and with it, it works like a charm. Built in mic
>>>> also didn't work, but that one got fixed in short order.
>>>> By the way, don't rely on wireless when installing Ubuntu. With my
>>>> chipset, you need to download and install the proprietary broadcom driver
>>>> (it's pretty much automatic but you need to be connected via ethernet cable
>>>> to be able to do it).
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "desktop edition" just means it comes with a graphical interface, as
>>>>> opposed to the text-mode alternate installer or server edition.
>>>>>
>>>>>  - Tony
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