Laptop Review (Compatibility) List

[Banny706]

I just wanted to make a suggestion to the forum concerning laptops and how hard it is to get one that just works with Ubuntu and other linux distros for that matter. My suggestion is to create a Laptop Compatibility Review Category where persons may post their laptop specs, how well it works, what it needs to get it working, etc. you get the picture. This would make it so much easier for people to make better informed choices as to what laptops are worth buying. Really useful for the second hand shopper.

Well, if anyone thinks this is a good idea, make a post to this thread with your laptop triumphs or woes complete with all the specs.

Take this as the first laptop in the thread.

I recently bought a Toshiba Satelitte P10
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?section=1&group=223&product=2391

For the most part everything works well. The only exceptions are the SD card slot doesn't work 'out of the box' and might work with some configuration (haven't tried it yet). I am also having a big problem with the Power Management, Startup, and Shut down as outlined in the post I made a few weeks ago. I am getting the BIOS error message on boot-up. MP-BIOS error: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=866595

Oh and thanks.

[phidia]

It's a good idea and there is an Ubuntu Laptop Testing Page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam) and several polls about this too.
Unless a thread is continually posted to, or gets made a sticky, it gets buried pretty quickly here.

[aysiu]

Great idea.

You may want to take a look at these threads as well:
The "Laptops-that-work-perfectly-on-Ubuntu" Thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=427464)
Ubuntu Recommended Hardware List (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=834616)

[Banny706]

Thanks guys. I guess it would be safe to close this thread then since Mazza558 beat me to the punch (long ago I may add). When doing a search for laptop info before, this thread never came up. Oh well. I'll copy and paste my laptop info over to that thread. Thanks again.