[ubuntu-in] Budget Laptop for Linux

[Hardik Dalwadi]

On Tuesday 21 June 2011 09:46 AM, Narendra Diwate 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.

@ Marendra,

Do you mean to say that Lenovo / Dell machines listed on Ubuntu
Certified site would work with other distros? If yes, then it's not true
so far, extra efforts are going to certify those machines and in few
cases (Where you will find "Pre-Installed Only" tag), OEM is providing
the dedicated / customized Ubuntu Image for the same. And also, if it is
listed on Ubuntu Certification site, then, machine certified with that
particular release will also work out of the box for future updates,
provided by that particular release.

For example, you can go for this [1], and that will work out of box with
Ubuntu. You will also find notes on the page if it requires proprietary
drivers.

[1]
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/200910-4252:200911-4633:200912-4896:200912-4897

> 
> So these are my requirements:
> 
> 1. Budget of 25K.
> 2. Atleast an Intel i3 or its AMD eqivalent. May go for Core2Duo if
> can't find one in budget.
> 3. Good battery life of atleast 4or5 hours.
> 4. 3GB RAM atleast.
> 5. Card Slot, Webcam, Bluetooth, Wifi.
> 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.
> 7. Atleast 250GB HDD.
> 8. Know to work with Debian/Ubuntu/Linux.
> 
> Please advice if these are reasonable/outlandish expectations. Any
> specific models/brands to look at. Any recent experiences that you went
> thru. Any Deals out there etc.
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> Narendra Diwate

Thanks,
-- 
Hardik Dalwadi,
person at Canonical,
http://www.hardik.in