* Thomas Taylor <linxt@comcast.net> [05-15-14 01:27]:
I'm thinking of getting a new laptop. Currently the wife and I share an old Dell which is setup for dual-booting Winblows and openSUSE. We frequently end up bargaining on who gets to use it on a given day.
I would like a laptop that can run Linux well, has supported hardware, high quality video (CAD drawings), is light weight, and preferably under $US 1000. Brand is not high on the priority list but customer service is.
I have a 15.6 acer v5-552p-x637 amd a10 radeon hd8650g/512mb 8gb 1000gb which came with win8, converted to 8.1. Runs factory from flash drive but need to disable UEFI to start. Haven't taken time to shrink windoz and install as usage is mainly web for news and mail which I read from cygwin ssh to home box, and transferring photos from camera to external usb3 drive for transport. And I get a good 4+ hrs battery when not using external drive. Unit is light and compact, no dvd drive and was US$499 at Sam's Club. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org