Hi all, First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my work. My prerequisites are: - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) - Processor: Core i7 - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD. - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon graphics cards). The most important tasks will be: - Surf the web :) - Read email - And the Most important task: I need to install complete virtual test labs on it using KVM, Xen and VMware suites to run several different types of OSes: RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Solaris-like, BSD, Windows 2012/2008 R2, etc. Any suggestions?? My first choice will be Toshiba or Lenovo laptops and of course it needs to be 100% compatible with CentOS6 (or almost at 95%). Thanks.
hello,
over the past year, I bought a lot of laptops and I insist on running
Centos on all of them.
* the best is Dell dell-vostro3450, wich is 95 % compatible. The other
5% being some fn function keys
but I think it's not for sale any more.
* At the moment I use an Acer Aspire E1-571. That is 97 % compatible,
because most fn keys work.
And the Broadcom wireless card can easily be replaced.
* the worst are Asus X55-A and Dell Vostro 3460 that have Atheros
network cards.
* I never tried Ati Radeon on Centos because of bad experience on
Opensuse. But maybe it works
Nvidia will sometimes require extra software for use with external
monitor or beamer.
So I agree on you with the intel graphics.
* The thing is, if you spend some 600 Euro's, you more often than not
end up with in the best case
some Broadcom cards that can be made to work given some effort.
In worst case with Atheros cards that require some magic to make
them work.
* imho if you buy a laptop that has Intel HD graphics, Intel network
card and Intel wireless card, it will work
out of the Centos box.
but those are too expensive for me.
Greetings, J.
Op 16-08-13 18:06, carlopmart schreef:> Hi all,
>
> First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my
> work. My prerequisites are:
>
> - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB)
> - Processor: Core i7
> - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD.
> - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon
> graphics cards).
>
> The most important tasks will be:
>
> - Surf the web :)
> - Read email
> - And the Most important task: I need to install complete virtual test
> labs on it using KVM, Xen and VMware suites to run several different
> types of OSes: RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Solaris-like, BSD, Windows 2012/2008
> R2, etc.
>
>
> Any suggestions?? My first choice will be Toshiba or Lenovo laptops and
> of course it needs to be 100% compatible with CentOS6 (or almost at 95%).
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Hey there, CentOS is using what kernel? 2.x?? which was not designed to work with newer hardware but Fedora works fine with it. If you need specific functions like EMAIL WEB etc take a look at the latest stable Fedora and go back one version and test it. I am using Fedora(18) on a very old MSI (5 years or more) and it works nice but not as fast as newer basic desktop corei3. I assume that Fedora will work on basic laptop chipsets. they do have compatibly list: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HCL/Machines/Laptops if you can know what is the chipset on each card like atheros broadcom intel nvidia ati etc you can make sure that the OS will work with it. my desktop has a ATI card so it's suppose to be compatible with Fedora. Did you considered other OS for the machine? Eliezer On 08/16/2013 07:06 PM, carlopmart wrote:> Hi all, > > First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my > work. My prerequisites are: > > - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) > - Processor: Core i7 > - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD. > - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon > graphics cards). > > The most important tasks will be: > > - Surf the web :) > - Read email > - And the Most important task: I need to install complete virtual test > labs on it using KVM, Xen and VMware suites to run several different > types of OSes: RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Solaris-like, BSD, Windows 2012/2008 > R2, etc. > > > Any suggestions?? My first choice will be Toshiba or Lenovo laptops and > of course it needs to be 100% compatible with CentOS6 (or almost at 95%). > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On 08/16/2013 06:06 PM, carlopmart wrote:> Hi all, > > First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my > work. My prerequisites are: > > - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) > - Processor: Core i7 > - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD. > - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon > graphics cards). > > The most important tasks will be: > > - Surf the web :) > - Read email > - And the Most important task: I need to install complete virtual test > labs on it using KVM, Xen and VMware suites to run several different > types of OSes: RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Solaris-like, BSD, Windows 2012/2008 > R2, etc. > > > Any suggestions?? My first choice will be Toshiba or Lenovo laptops and > of course it needs to be 100% compatible with CentOS6 (or almost at 95%). > > Thanks. >I recently bought Samsung NP350E5x-A04HR that is all Intel with with traditional Fn function (some manufacturers reverse the Fn action so you get F1-F12 WITH Fn, and play/pause/wireless/etc are used WITHOUT Fn key) with current problem that volume key goes haywire when pressed several times and freezes screen. Only thing that it failed to recognize is Card Reader, it looks like some bus is not recognized. Design is good, key are fairly large, numerical keyboard properly spaced and almost all keys on traditional places (arrows are little smaller), it has 1Gbit Lan, 2 x USB3 + 2xUSB2, touchpad is large and there are no connectors on the back of the laptop (only on the sides). So you might want to check out Samsung models with same specs (mine has Pentium DualCore, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD). -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2013-Aug-17 14:42 UTC
[CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6
On 2013-08-16 19:06, carlopmart wrote:> Hi all, > > First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my > work. My prerequisites are: > > - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) > - Processor: Core i7 > - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD. > - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon > graphics cards).I currently dual boot a Dell latitude E6430 with Fedora 18 and CentOS 6 without problems. CPU i5 + Intel graphic (1600x900) on the 14". I think it's a very good choice. -- RMA.
levono thinkpad w530 On Aug 16, 2013 7:07 PM, "carlopmart" <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my > work. My prerequisites are: > > - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) > - Processor: Core i7 > - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD. > - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon > graphics cards). > > The most important tasks will be: > > - Surf the web :) > - Read email > - And the Most important task: I need to install complete virtual test > labs on it using KVM, Xen and VMware suites to run several different > types of OSes: RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Solaris-like, BSD, Windows 2012/2008 > R2, etc. > > > Any suggestions?? My first choice will be Toshiba or Lenovo laptops and > of course it needs to be 100% compatible with CentOS6 (or almost at 95%). > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >