I have recently moved to an Acer AXC-605-UR2B, where I am running ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz × 4
Memory: 3.7 GiB (nominal 4 GiB)
Graphics: Intel® Haswell Desktop
The UPC of this unit was: 8 87899 77823 0 I ordered it from Newegg.com.
I purchased this particular PC because it ships with Windows 7 installed. I am trying to wean myself off Windows, but still use it for some things. I want nothing to do with Windows 8.
This PC has a small case, but still includes an optical drive. It came with a 1 TB hard drive installed. Should I ever want more memory, there is a slot left for expansion.
I had expected the PC to come with UEFI and a GPT partition table. In preparation, I studied up on ubuntu dual-boot installs under UEFI. To my surprise, this PC was set up the old-fashioned way. It boots Windows 7 in the old legacy BIOS mode, does not use Secure Boot (I believe that one is only on Windows 8 anyway), and has the MBR partitioning. That made the ubuntu install easier than I anticipated.
There were 3 partitions on the drive already. Therefore, I had only 1 partition left to add (under MBR rules). That meant I couldn't add a linux swap partition. Using a procedure I found in the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq , I created a 9 GB swap file in my Linux partition.
So far, this PC is working very well. I recommend it to anyone shopping for a new, small case desktop for ubuntu.
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