ubuntu installation on hp.net laptop

Fri Nov 15 15:21:49 UTC 2024

At Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:07:50 -0500 bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> update:
>  -been looking at/for 17" laptops for ubuntu. Weird, haven't found
> that many at a reasonable price that would seem to run Ubuntu. I'm not
> willing to pay $1400 for a laptop..
> 
> My initial goal/criteria..
>  reasonable late intel/amd (ryzen 5/7)
>  able to add me.. 8-32 G
>  SSD +HDD
>  required USB/Lan ports
>  17"
>  wifi
> 
>  Doesn't seem like much!
> 
> So, anyone have any suggestions on where to find these elusive unicorns!
> 
> The ubuntu/certified lists lists a lot of sub 17" laptops.
> 
> I'm thinking of simply calling the "big" laptop vendors and trying to
> get their sales channels, but these guys aren't the best, with the
> automation/menus/etc..

Don't bother.  The main OEMs only sell M$ machines.  And only know M$.  No 
help there.  (Yes, *some* sell Ubuntu laptops, but only specific models and 
from a hard to get to part of their sites -- look under business sales.)

> 
> Thoughts/Comments are welcome.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=thinkpad+laptop+17%22&_sacat=0&toolid 004&mkcid=1&campidS38192028&kw=thinkpad+laptop&mkridq1-53200-19255-0

Virtually any Thinkpad that is a few years old should work out-of-the-box.

*Possibly* older Dells might work, but not certain. Much older machines might
work (eg with enough "age" drivers/firmware for the WiFi will have been back
ported). At this point the only hardware issues will be WiFi. All other
hardware will either be generic (eg SATA, USB) or standardized API (video,
sound).

The above search list does include a few 17" Thinkpads. Generally older 
models.  It is frequent that corp. hand-me-downs show up.  These are often 
high-quality machines that are 3-5+ years old.  Nothing wrong with them -- it 
is just corp. taxes issues: laptops are good for a 3-5 year depreciation, so 
corps dump their 3-5 year old laptops once the depreciation period runs out 
and buy new ones, this allows them a tax deduuction for the depreciation.

> 
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 5:13â¯AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 19:21, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You are going to need to get this info, before you start. Esp. if it is a
> > > *new* laptop. *Important* info you will need:
> > >
> > > What WiFi chipset?
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > > I have no clue about HP laptops (why HP?). Lenovo laptops (Thinkpads) tend to
> > > have well supported Intel WiFi and generally work out-of-the-box.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > > Are you buying this at a store (Best Buy, etc.)? If so, bring a Linux Live USB
> > > stick to the store and try it out on the store model.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > > I have *always* bought older machines (used and/or refurbs off e-bay). And all
> > > of the laptops I have owned in recent times have been IBM or Lenovo Thinkpads.
> > > I have owned other makes, but the Thinkpads were solid machines and if (?) I
> > > ever buy another laptop, it will be a Lenovo Thinkpad. I would not even look
> > > at anything else.
> >
> > Me too.
> >
> > There are no guarantees in this business and Lenovo is not IBM, and
> > also note non-Thinkpad Lenovos are plastic junk -- it's not Lenovo
> > that matters,  but specifically Thinkpad -- but even so, older
> > Thinkpads are the best laptops you can buy.
> >
> > I'd prefer a few-years-old Thinkpad to a brand-new anything else. And
> > that goes double for a budget model anything else.
> >
> >
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