Hi,
I'm thinking in buying a new laptop, my current laptop is about 5 years old and I'm quite happy with it, it travel around the world with me, fall from the table when my cat got stuck on the power cord and never gave me any hardware issue except now that the 5 in one card reader just died.
Oddly enough this was a Sony VAIO which also gave me lots of headaches to get linux to work ok on it, although with mandriva it miraculous works out of the box.
What I am looking is a laptop where i can run linux, but also needs to have a good GPU such as an ATI or NVidia which give me full 3D acceleration and CUDA/OpenCL development environment. I am also looking for something with a nice CPU such as an i5 or a i7
Of course since I am happy with vaio old VAIO i looked into the VAIO F11M1E which comes with:
i5 520m
4Gb ram
GeForce GT 330M
1920x1080 screen
500Gb HDD @5400rpm
and less than 1000 euros, however i cannot find many blogs or people with linux on it. Can someone tell their experiences on laptops such as this or with similar specs.
BTW I want everything to work, 3D, microphone, webcam because I do multimedia development and these are fundamental selling points for me to buy a linux laptop
and... I do not like mac, apple or anything like that, so don't bother trying to sell me that
Thanks and let me hear from you guys!!!
I'm thinking in buying a new laptop, my current laptop is about 5 years old and I'm quite happy with it, it travel around the world with me, fall from the table when my cat got stuck on the power cord and never gave me any hardware issue except now that the 5 in one card reader just died.
Oddly enough this was a Sony VAIO which also gave me lots of headaches to get linux to work ok on it, although with mandriva it miraculous works out of the box.
What I am looking is a laptop where i can run linux, but also needs to have a good GPU such as an ATI or NVidia which give me full 3D acceleration and CUDA/OpenCL development environment. I am also looking for something with a nice CPU such as an i5 or a i7
Of course since I am happy with vaio old VAIO i looked into the VAIO F11M1E which comes with:
i5 520m
4Gb ram
GeForce GT 330M
1920x1080 screen
500Gb HDD @5400rpm
and less than 1000 euros, however i cannot find many blogs or people with linux on it. Can someone tell their experiences on laptops such as this or with similar specs.
BTW I want everything to work, 3D, microphone, webcam because I do multimedia development and these are fundamental selling points for me to buy a linux laptop
and... I do not like mac, apple or anything like that, so don't bother trying to sell me that
Thanks and let me hear from you guys!!!
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