Which laptop to buy?

**Spgt** · August 17th, 2013

I would like to get a laptop for daily usage which is light and inexpensive.
I have done a bit of research and I feel like following laptops are more suitable for me:
Toshiba Portege z930
Sony Viao pro 11/13 inch
Acer Aspire s7
Could someone advice me on the compatibility of these laptops with ubuntu, and how difficult it is to install the OS on them.
Any other suggestion is also welcome.

Thanks

**BlinkinCat** · August 17th, 2013

Hi,

Have you looked here for a start?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543006

Cheers -

**QIII** · August 17th, 2013

I'm not going to look at them each specifically, but I will tell you something to avoid:

If the system has either hybrid Intel/ATI or hybrid Intel/NVIDIA graphics, don't buy it.

**Spgt** · August 17th, 2013

And how do I know if it is hybrid?
For example, Toshiba uses Intel HD graphic 4000. I am assuming that is not hybrid. am I right?

**Spgt** · August 17th, 2013

I have read couple of pages but not all of it

Havent seen these models on those pages yet.

**carl4926** · August 17th, 2013

There is this page too
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

**mörgæs** · August 17th, 2013

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/

**ajgreeny** · August 17th, 2013

Intel HD graphic 4000 is terrific if that is the only graphic output on the machine. The difficulty arises if there are two graphic systems which the computer is supposed to chose between depending on the application and resource needs of the system to run it. This works in Windows and is starting to improve with bumblebee in ubuntu, but as far as I'm aware is not there yet.