Which laptop to buy for out of box support

[keys84]

My fujitsu amillo has just gone kaput after 4 years of full time service with long uptimes

looking at budget priced laptops as a replacement
the Toshiba C50 (i think its a satellite) looks tempting £300
had a quick google and nothing jumps out at me as bad
anyone shed any light on it or others to avoid or lean towards??

not sure if ill be using 13.10 on it as i've been happy with 12.10 up til now

any suggestions welcome

and please dont beat on me for wrong forum

Thanks for any input

keys

[woodsmoke]

Hi
Both of mine are "old" but one of them.....

I had "out of the box" support for both dual install and also single install and multiple install for:

a) A Toshiba Satellite, older one, and could ALSO change out the hardware for memory and wireless card.

b) A Sony Vaio.............the one that the latest James Bond has in the first movie on the sailboat! lol



So you would have a certain ....um ....cache' by having it! lol

but, changing hardware on it is a little more obtuse, one has to remove the top of the keyboard.

As to dual booting with UEFI on them I don't know, but that is addressed very well in other threads.

woodsmoke

[zeeone]

Chrome Book or Acer are said to be good.
Me? Run three older Macbook Pro, 32bit and 64bit.

[tek_heretik]

Absolute cutting/bleeding edge hardware may give you some issues, I recommend finding a slightly aging (a matter of a few months these days) new lappy at a reduced price, save yourself some money in the process.

Check out this list, or conduct your own search using the tool.

Edit: If it will run Ubuntu, it will certainly run Kubuntu

[keys84]

Thanks for input guys

its definately not bleeding edge and is just a budget model
intel dual core
intel HD graphics
not sure on audio board but i bet onboard intel too
wifi have a spare card
lan on board

I should hope all this works ok

I've pre ordered it today and i'll be installing later
so ill let you guys know

[Snowhog]

Nothing wrong with Intel dual-core and Intel HD graphics and Intel audio. My Toshiba Satellite P105-S6147 (32-bit) is all onboard Intel and it works great with Kubuntu 13.10 (and all previous releases I've used). You won't be playing heavy graphics games, but otherwise, it's a solid platform.

[keys84]

just to note that everything worked out of the box
except uefi support
turned that off and no problems
all intel onboard
and qualcomm atheros lan and wifi

no problems

thanks forum'ers

[keys84]

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[SteveRiley]

@keys84: we don't have a habit of routinely closing threads here at KFN. Someone else may find this thread and wish to ask you additional questions, or another member might purchase the same model and wish to report his/her experiences.