zongpog
January 11th, 2010, 02:03 PM
Dear everybody,
I am close to buying a second hand laptop from a shop nearby and they have several notebooks.
I would like to check that some of these systems are
i) capable of running Ubuntu smoothly and
ii) because the same models of the laptops can come with different hardware, be able to verify which hardward (e.g graphics cards) are installed.
To this end, I seek a Live CD that can accomplish this and will produce meaningful & quick to interpret results. I won't have the time, nor the patience of the vendor, to compare Mb/s disc through-put across ten machines in the shop. I would like to have a simple set of results:
* Yes this can run Ubuntu 9 without Compiz and watch youtube,
* The hard disc is PATA connected to a SATA interface. (as in the Thinkpad R51)
Any clues?
Yours faithfully, z
I am close to buying a second hand laptop from a shop nearby and they have several notebooks.
I would like to check that some of these systems are
i) capable of running Ubuntu smoothly and
ii) because the same models of the laptops can come with different hardware, be able to verify which hardward (e.g graphics cards) are installed.
To this end, I seek a Live CD that can accomplish this and will produce meaningful & quick to interpret results. I won't have the time, nor the patience of the vendor, to compare Mb/s disc through-put across ten machines in the shop. I would like to have a simple set of results:
* Yes this can run Ubuntu 9 without Compiz and watch youtube,
* The hard disc is PATA connected to a SATA interface. (as in the Thinkpad R51)
Any clues?
Yours faithfully, z