Help me to buy a laptop
By xe20mx
@xe20mx (94)
India
January 12, 2010 8:59am CST
I'm going to buy a new laptop possibly a dell or toshiba,but the problem is that i want to dual boot it both ubuntu and windows .I'm worried about the configuration; how i know if it support linux or not. Dell has a new lap inspiron 14 with ubuntu but i don't know if it supports windows..
and i prefer one with no preinstalled os.I tried from dell's site to configure my laptop but i can only upgrade from there ex.,no option for 'no os' and i can't choose 'no security features' i can only upgrade 1 months security 6 months n like that.So now i'm thinking of inspiron 15 series Do anyone has experience with that is it supports ubuntu?
2 responses
@sankaramb (90)
• India
13 Jan 10
My suggestion is use vmware workstation or server for the other operating system to be used.Now a days every body is preferring vmware instead of dual boot if the laptop or system is having high configuration suchas more than 1gb ram and core to duo processor.Every laptop is suitable for windows.
@zuokula (43)
• Lithuania
12 Jan 10
Hello, xe20mx.
If I was in your situation, I would just get some dell which is capable of win OS, usually Ubuntu works on any machine. The only problems that I've had with it were on my Asus EEE mini laptop. It was a little bit tricky with the wi-fi. And there is always an option to try ubuntu on a virtual machine first, in that case you know what you may face with. I don't know if this post helped in any way, but that's what I think and would do. :)
Mindaugas.
