[ubuntu-in] Budget Laptop for Linux

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Narendra Diwate
<narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I am thinking of buying a Budget Laptop (About 25K INR, Not Netbook, so NO
> Atom or similar). Towards that end, because I want it to be fully compatible
> with Linux, was looking at Ubuntus page of supported/tested hardware
> (http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/). I find that Lenovo and Dell have the
> most models that are supposed to work well with Ubuntu. I assume broadly
> that this is true of all Distos.

About a year or so back, some friends had pretty similar requirements
- an about 25 K full featured laptop. After quite a bit of
investigation and writing around we settled on the Lenovo B 450 Series
(specs below)

LENOVO  NB B450-59029506 14.1” Intel Pentium Dual Core (2.10 GHZ)/1 GB
RAM DDR-II/160 GB HDD/Intel 5100 Agn (1*2)/ DVDRW Optical Drive
/6cellbattery /Bluetooth/Camera/Dos/1 Year Warranty
Cost is 24,500 + 5% VAT (Prices as in March 2010)

So to address your specs specifically yes

>
> So these are my requirements:
>
> 1. Budget of 25K.
Yes

> 2. Atleast an Intel i3 or its AMD eqivalent. May go for Core2Duo if can't
> find one in budget.
Yes

> 3. Good battery life of atleast 4or5 hours.
Decent battery - 3-4 hours
> 4. 3GB RAM atleast.
1 GB RAM (upgradeable)

> 5. Card Slot, Webcam, Bluetooth, Wifi.
Yes
> 6. Am looking at as light as possible in this budget, so if it comes with an
> Optical drive to reduce size/weight, so be it.
Pretty light - and since its a 14.1" inch screen

> 7. Atleast 250GB HDD.
160 GB or for a price can be upgraded
> 8. Know to work with Debian/Ubuntu/Linux.

Have installed Ubuntu on it and it rocks - its been over a year since
we got these laptops and as yet there are no issues

The higher up version was
LENOVO  NB B450-59029513 14.1” Intel Pentium Dual Core (2.10 GHZ)/2 GB
RAM DDR-II/320 GB HDD/Intel 5100 Agn (1*2)/ DVDRW Optical Drive
/6cellbattery /Bluetooth/Camera/Dos/1 Year Warranty
Cost is 27,000 +5% VAT

However am sure that these specs and prices have changed but am aware
that the B (and maybe G series) are still available.

regards
ram
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