[SGVLUG] Complete Tangent From: Linux laptops (with Peripherals)

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If you are considering the Dell Precision 3510, you might want to consider
the Dell Precision 5510 (
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m5510-workstation/pd?oc=xctop551015us
).

I recently had a sour experience trying to order from Dell in which I was
treated quite poorly.  I am inclined to choose another vendor but I their
offering seems to fit my needs most closely at the moment.  I am torn.



On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Sean O'Donnell <sean at seanodonnell.com>
wrote:

> On 03/10/2016 04:44 PM, Braddock Gaskill wrote:
>
>> For high end laptops =>32GB RAM with explicit linux support, there is
>> the System76 Oryx and the Dell Precision 3510:
>>
>> https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
>>
>>
>> http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop?c=us&l=en&s=biz
>>
>> -braddock
>>
>>
>>
> I like the idea of supporting a small company like System76, rather than
> Dell, despite my previous response regarding dell xps-13.
>
> Many years ago, I bought a "gaming laptop" from a company in City of
> Industry called ProStar. http://www.pro-star.com/
>
> I eventually turned it into a dedicated linux laptop running Debian. This
> was about 11yrs ago, so the hardest part was getting certain lmsensor
> drivers and wifi to work. Wifi was fairly simple to solve, since it
> required ipw2200 drivers, which were eventually natively supported in later
> kernels.
>
> Coming from Slackware to Debian, I was comfortable compiling and hunting
> down all the driver dependencies, more so than I would have the patience
> for these days, being a lazy ol' CentOS user now...
>
>
>
>
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