Laptop COMPATIBILITY List.

[lgharriman]

1 Ubuntu & Kubuntu 11.04
2 Fujitsu
3 Stylistic St5032D Tablet computer

Everything works including screen and tablet rotation using side buttons on tablet.
Mouse doesn't rotate correctly.

[DarkAmbient]

Acer Ferrari 3200 & Acer Ferrari 5500. Two older laptops which I'm about to discard.

Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 works great on them, hav'nt tried installing any later Ubuntu on them.

[lauribuntu]

1. Version: Ubuntu 10.10

2. Laptop Maker: IBM

3. Laptop Model: X60 s

Updated with an Corsair Force 3 SSD.

Works well. Enabled Trim and moved browser cache to /Tmp.

F-A-S-T!

Cheers

L.

[keldon]

Ununtu 11.10
Dell 1720
works great

[atlscrog]

. Version: Ubuntu 11.10

2. Laptop Maker: Acer

3. Laptop Model: Aspire 3680

Updated with an 60GB Razor SSD

It installed perfectly, it sleeps, wakes up, controls the fan and WiFi works (almost) out of the box!

Only fly in the ointment is I can't seem to adjust screen brightness.

[zippytex]

Laptop Dell Latitude C400
Ubuntu 10.4

This works fine with some tweaking.
1. boot up Ubuntu10.4
2. touch any key as soon as you see the automatic boot warning
3. highlight the compatibility mode by pressing down arrow once
4. then press tab key once
5. exactly where the flashing text entry is flashing enter the following, do not enter a space.
6. type in i915.modeset=0 and hit enter, nothing else

It will flash and flicker, but be patience and wait 1-2 minutes and it will find the right resolution. Then install and it will boot up automatically after the install.

I am no expert, but everthing seems to be working, at least everything that I use. Hope this helps.

[BlueprintIT]

1) Ubuntu 10.10, BackBox R1, Mint, SuSe, Pentoo, Knoppix, Lightweight Portable Security, Mandriva
2) Toshiba
3) Satellite L305-S5933 (and L305-S5934)

The L305-S5933 uses the Pentium T3400 CPU and Chipset
The L305-S5934 uses the AMD Turion X2 (RM-70) CPU and Chipset

Everything works great. All the multimedia buttons work, the function buttons (turn on/off wifi/trackpad/locked keyboard, change brightness of screen, suspend to disk) all work, the volume disk in the front works, the memory card reader works fine, and the options to suspend or sleep the computer work great. The best part of these models of laptops is the wireless cards work great with Aircrack-ng. They are perfect Pentesting laptops....and you can pick one up for under $100 new.

Warning: Doing any file transferring without a laptop chill-pad will result in the laptop overheating and the system forcing a shutdown to prevent thermal damage. Do not use the laptop without a chill-pad if you intend to move files or do anything requiring heavy use of the CPU for more than a couple minutes at a time. If you use a chill-pad, then do whatever you care to do. I have even run stress-test software from the Ultimate Boot CD and the Emergency Recover CD collections while the chill-pad was connected and never had any issues.

Puppy Linux, PCLinuxOS, Chakra do NOT work off of liveCDs or trying to install.

[Lee_Bo]

Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit
Dell Latitude D630 (4 gig ram)
Dell Studio 1720 (4 gig ram)

Straight forward installation from cd rom, and Unity works great on both. Had to install the restricted drivers for wireless and video. Very smooth install and very smooth running OS.

[Lee_Bo]

Let me add one more.

Dell
Latitude E6410 (4 gig ram)
Ubuntu 11.10

Another straight forward install from the cd rom. Has to install restricted drivers for video and wireless and it's running great.

[mrll2]

Version: Ubuntu 11.10

dell inspirion N4050

Everything works 100%