Laptop COMPATIBILITY List.

[rdzurney]

Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit
HP
dv7-3180us, 8GB RAM, 750GB HD

Initial video issues but correct nvidia driver fixed that. Plugging in headphones does not mute laptop speakers. Other than that, all OK so far.

[reyquito]

A brief commentary of my experience on installing Ubuntu 12.04 in a Bangho Futura 1500 i3-560 notebook.


First of all, after installation the system works fine and fast. No popups telling you that something has gone wrong or asking you to send a report to the development team, or just informing that Unity has closed unexpectedly... again. Intel HM65 video card seems to work fine and doesn't requiere additional drivers. The same goes for the soundcard.


Then: components such as mousepad, bluetooth, webcam, wifi & keyboard special keys works out-of-the-box.


Some hardware sepcs:


Processor: Intel Corei3 Serie 2300
RAM: 4Gb. DDR3.
HD: SATA 500Gb.
Chipset: Intel HM65

Video: Intel HM65 (up to 1748MB)

Network: 10/100/1000, Wireless 802.11b/g/n

[Gink]

Asus N53SM-ES72
Intel Core i7-2670QM (Intel HD 3000 Graphics)
Discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M 2GB GPU
6GB RAM

Dual Booting Win7/Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu install went well, everything looked good and seemed to work out of the box. No BIOS options for switching/disabling GPUs was disappointing. Ubuntu initially defaulted to discrete GPU. No NVIDIA drivers showed in additional drivers. Installed Gnome 3 and it would only run in fallback mode. Installed latest NVIDIA driver, no change. Removed NVIDIA driver and installed Bumblebee, Ubuntu now defaults to Intel GPU, Gnome 3 runs fine, NVIDIA drivers show up in additional drivers, but are not currently active.

I haven't yet experimented with switching to the NVIDIA GPU and tried the 2 different sets of NVIDIA drivers, but everything works fine so far with integrated graphics.

Only quirks so far have been playing audio over the bluetooth, rather choppy, but so far the bluetooth in Win7 on this notebook won't even find my device.

Other quirk seems to be screen brightness turning itself up to max at random when I have it turned down. May be some power setting or something else.

All in all a pretty painless experience so far making this a pretty great Ubuntu laptop.

[lewisgoddard]

Ubuntu 12.04 on Acer Aspire 7740 17.3" LED With I3-370M and 6GB DDR3 works flawlessly.

[Beatsleigher]

Ubuntu 11.04/11.10/12.04, Dell Studio 1737

[Ceannfaolaidh]

Lenovo Thinkpad T420i works almost perfectly out of the box, save for some hiccups with wireless and integrated graphics.

[Rytron]

Lenovo Thinkpad T420i works almost perfectly out of the box, save for some hiccups with wireless and integrated graphics.

What are the hiccups?

[foobantu]

1)Version Of Ubuntu - Ubuntu 12.04 - Precise Pangolin - 64 Bit
2)Laptop Maker - Lenovo
3)Laptop Model - Lenovo Z570.

Everything works and works good

Suspend/Resume works (This is the ONLY Linux flavour so far on which this has worked), Changing brightness through laptop keys works, Fn+F2 works (screen off/on), my pppoe connectivity works.

Best part is, this is the only version and flavour of Linux on which my battery works for 3.5 hours. That too while I am downloading cinammon, installing it, browsing the net, downloading updates, installing themes etc.

Best version of Linux I've used till date.

There are some laptop heating issues, but the temperature howers between 37C when Idle and 51C when all the activities mentioned above are going on.

Thank you Ubuntu Developers, now I am finally able to completely move off Windows.

[ilama007]

1)Version Of Ubuntu - Ubuntu 12.04 - Precise Pangolin - 64 Bit
2)Laptop Maker - Asus
3)Laptop Model - Asus U43F

Everything working smooth, super fast, and battery is pretty good. The only problem is by default, Suspend/Resume doesn't work, but it has an easy fix in the ubuntu community. Super happy, that my laptop is performing better than my macbook pro. ubuntu rocks!

[rs3]

Ubuntu 12.04 (x86, but also works with amd64)
HP Compaq 6730b

Volume mute/unmute does not work, but volume up/down does. Intel 5000-series wireless (Shiloh chipset) has a problem connecting to 802.11n networks in Ubuntu 10.10 through 12.04, but this can be remedied (disabled) by putting the following line in a text file under /etc/modprobe.d (e.g., /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf):

options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1

All other hardware appears to work fine.