Running Ubuntu on Lenovo Laptops

[Martín Cigorraga]

Hello Peter,
One thing you shall consider is what's the HW capabilities of your laptops.
Download a copy of Ubuntu and try them live before installing: is the
environment feels smooth,  specially Unity, you're ready to go.
If not there's still some tweaking you can try on Unity like disabling the
blurring and de-activating the online search (as the Python script
responsible for that tends to eat a lot of CPU resources for a short time
while doing the searches).
As a last resort and to stick to Ubuntu's family OSs you may want to give a
chance to Xubuntu or Lubuntu - two flavors of Ubuntu tailored for less
powerful computers.

Cheers
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:05:51PM +1100, Peter Goggin wrote:
>>
>> I have four laptops running XP Pro. Now that support for XP Pro is
>> finishing I am consideri ng whether to go back to using Ubuntu which
>> I used on my old desktops. The Lenovo models are X61s, T400, W500
>> and X201. Will they run ubuntu?
>
> Yes.
>
> You may check
> http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/make/Lenovo/?category=Laptop,
> but in practice Ubuntu runs well even on models that aren't officially
> certified.

I've run 13.10 and am running 14.04 on a Y510P and it's not certified.

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