On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:02:36AM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

El 15/05/14 01:25, Thomas Taylor escribió:

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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.

What laptops are list members using and how was your experience (installation & use).

Thanks, Tom

Some Thinkpads are certified for use with SLED, I heard positive results with them.

SLED 11 GA is not openSUSE though, but something similar to an older openSUSE release.

Thinkpads are the laptop of choice here at SUSE and work nicely. ;) Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 08:33 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Thomas Taylor [05-15-14 01:27]:

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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 Hi Problem here with acer is that they bios disable virtualisation: no xen or kvm. Can't do 64 bit vm's of any type either. That's Spain. YMMV.

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On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 09:14 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* lynn [05-15-14 08:52]:

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On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 08:33 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Thomas Taylor [05-15-14 01:27]:

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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 Hi Problem here with acer is that they bios disable virtualisation: no xen or kvm. Can't do 64 bit vm's of any type either. That's Spain. YMMV.

I hve vbox session of openSUSE Tw installed and runs fine???? Maybe the bios problem is from earlier editions?

32bit vm's are fine. I think it's a spain prob with the bios. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Hi, I have a Lenovo G505 stuffed with AMD products and stuffed with problems. I can boot oS 13.1 only in recovery mode, energy saving (suspend and híbernate) are highly problematic, screen saving also. Though interestingly there was one place where screen saving worked in a wifi environment, and I don't know its reason. Virtualization is permitted by BIOS, I use vB (Oracle) but only 32 bit systems can be installed. UEFI and secure boot is OK. In fact, I could use only os WITH uefi AND SECURE BOOT, i totally failed with other ubuntu based distros. This is not a dual-boot system, it has 13.1 with KDE 4.13 and XFCE and Win7 in VB. Tried dual bootwith win 7 but it would havew a major task to collect drivers from vendors site, since win7 does not contain drivers for this machine. Albert Idézet (lynn ):

On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 08:33 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Thomas Taylor [05-15-14 01:27]:

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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 Hi Problem here with acer is that they bios disable virtualisation: no xen or kvm. Can't do 64 bit vm's of any type either. That's Spain. YMMV.

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On 05/15/2014 05:51 AM, lynn wrote:

On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 08:33 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Thomas Taylor [05-15-14 01:27]:

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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 Hi Problem here with acer is that they bios disable virtualisation: no xen or kvm. Can't do 64 bit vm's of any type either. That's Spain. YMMV.

I have an acerv5-122p with a AMD 1450. there were instructions on the internet to enable it on UEFI. You might want to check it out for your laptop. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Thomas Taylor wrote:

Has anyone used a Lenovo Yoga 2 with openSUSE? This is about the size, weight, and price I'm looking for although the lack of an internal DVD and non-expandable RAM are drawbacks but not show-stoppers.

I haven't used that specific laptop, but a comment on the lack of internal DVD... I've got a laptop with no DVD and it's not an issue at all. You can pick up a very cheap external USB DVD drive (they are really slim and light) and keep it in your laptop bag. I use mine maybe once in 6 months... if that. It's really not worth basing a laptop purchase on whether there's an internal DVD or not these days. The DVD drive is rapidly becoming obsolete. For storage/backup (a reason people cite for needing/wanting a DVD drive), you can pick up something like the 2TB WD Passport drive.. USB3 and really small. The RAM... on the Yoga 2, you can get up to 8GB of RAM... that should be more than enough for more laptop needs regardless of OS. For resources on that laptop, check: http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_ideapad_yoga_2_pro http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=3270 Basically.. it seems to work OK with Linux. C. -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.13 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org