The "Laptops-that-work-perfectly-on-Ubuntu" Thread

[Mazza558]

I'm getting a cheap laptop in July for Ubuntu, however, I think it would be good for people to post the models of any laptops that they found to be working out of the box, allowing potential Ubuntu users to know what to buy if they do go for Ubuntu.

PLEASE USE THIS FORMAT FOR WORKING LAPTOPS! It will make my life so much easier.

[Brand] [Model] [Processor] [RAM]

Please note: If you do not follow this format, only the laptop brand and model number will be added.

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Last Updated: 29th September 2007

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Top Brands

Speicifically for Linux:

-System76

1. Dell - 20+ Laptops - Rating = *****
2. IBM - 20+ Laptops (including Thinkpads) - Rating = *****
3. HP/Compaq - 11 Laptops - Rating = ***
4. Toshiba- 5 Laptops - Rating = **
5. Asus- 3 Laptops - Rating = *

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Acer Laptops available = 7 | Current Rating = ***

-[Acer Aspire] [5050][Turion 64 MK36 2GHz] [512MB]

-[Acer] [Aspire 1520] [512Mb RAM] [AMD Athlon 64 3000+]

-[Acer] [Aspire 3610] [Intel Celeron 1,5 GHz] [default RAM: 256 MB, easily upgradeable] (Note: Some keys on keyboard don't work)

-[Acer] [Aspire 5601] [1.67GHz Centrino Duo] [1Gb RAM] [80Gb HDD] (Needs the 915resolution patch)

-[Acer] [TravelMate 4202 WLMi] [Intel Core Duo T2300 (1.66Ghz, 667Mhz, 2mb, L2 cache)]

-[Acer][Travelmate 351TE] [PIII, 700 MhZ][256 RAM]

-[Acer] [Aspire 5102WLMi] [AMD Turion 64 X2 TL50] [1GB DDR2]


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Advent Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


-[Advent] [7109 (UK)] [Celeron 1.46Ghz] [1024mb RAM] [128mb Intel GMA950 (GPU)] [60gb SATA Hard Drive]


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Alienware Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


- [Area-51 m5500] [Pentium M 2.4Ghz] [2GB RAM]


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Apple Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


All G4 Powerbooks, iBooks with PowerPC Ubuntu.


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Asus Laptops available = 3 | Current Rating = **


-[Asus] [F2F] [Core 2 Duo] [1024]

-[Asus] [z71vp] [1gb ram]

-[Asus] [Z35F]


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BenQ Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


-[BenQ] [Joybook R55]


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Clevo Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


-[Clevo] [5600D] [Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4Ghz] [512MB DDR266]


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Dell Laptops available = 20+ | Current Rating = *****

[ Dell ] [C610] [ Pentium III 1 Gig ] [ 384 MB ]

-[Dell] [D610] [pentium m (I think) (all works - no bluetooth)]

Dell Latitude D610

-[Dell] [D620] [core 2 duo (all works including bluetooth but a manual config for the BT)]

-[Dell] [C500]

-[Dell] [C600]

-[Dell] [D820] [core duo]

-[Dell] [600m] [pentium m]

-[Dell] [D610] [Pentium M 1.6GHz] [1G RAM] [915GM board (GPU)] (Needs 915resolution)

-[Dell] [E1505] (Needs a resolution fix)

-[Dell][ Inspiron b130][ Intel Pentium M 1.7][ 1 gig ]

-[Dell] [Inspiron 500m]

-[Dell] [Inspiron 2500]

-Dell] [Inspiron 4150] [Mobile Intel Pentium 4 1.70 GHz] [640 MB RAM]

-[Dell] [Inspiron 9300]

-[Dell] [Inspiron 8200] [Pentium 4 M 1.4GHz][768 MB RAM]

-[Dell] [Inspiron 6000] [1.73GHz Pentium M] [1GB RAM]

-[Dell][Inspiron 6000][Pentium M 1.6 GHz][768MB DDR2]

- [Dell] [Inspiron 700m] [Pentium M 1.6 Ghz, 2MiB cache] [1 GiB] (No Firewire functionality)

-DELL E-SERIES (All Models) - Starting at the end of May

-[DELL] [Latitude D520]

-[Dell] [Latitude C600] [Intel 650MHz] [256 MB]

-[Dell] [Latitude C610]

-[Dell] [Latitude D600]

-[Dell] [XPS M1710] [3Ghz] [2GB ram]


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Fujitsu-Siemens Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


- [Fujitsu-Siemens] [Amilo Si1520] [Core 2 Duo T7200 @ 2Ghz][2Gb RAM]

-[Fujitsu]LifeBook T4220]

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Gateway Laptops available = 3 | Current Rating = **


-[Gateway] [ROG450] [Pentium M 1.5GHz processor] [512Mb RAM]

-[Gateway] [MX6920]

-[GateWay][GTW-MX6920][1 Gb Ram ][Core Duo T2050 Processor 1.6 GHz]


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HP / HP-Compaq Laptops available = 11 | Current Rating = ***


-[HP] [dv1000] [1.6GHz] [512Mb] [80Gb] (REQUIRES NDISWRAPPER FOR WIFI)

-[HP-Compaq] [nx9020]

-[HP Compaq] [NX 7300] [Core 2 Duo 2Ghz T7200] [1 GB]

-[HP] [nx6110]

-[HP] [NX7000]

-[HP] [Pavilion zv6000] [ATI Radeon Xpress 200m] [Broadcom wireless] [Sempron 3200+] [512MB RAM] [40gb HD] (Perhaps needs Ndiswrapper for WiFi)

-[HP] [Compaq Evo n610c]

-HP [dv6130]

-HP [dv6365]

-[Compaq] [M300]

-[Compaq] [M700]
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IBM Laptops available = 20+ | Current Rating = *****


-[IBM] [R32 model 2658-BQU]

-[IBM] [ThinkPad] (Essentially All Models)


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Lenovo Laptops available = 0 | Current Rating = *


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Nexoc Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


-[Nexoc] [Osiris S609 II] [Intel Core 2 Duo, T5500, 1,66 GHz] [1GB]

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Olivett Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *i

-[Olibook] [810]

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Packard Bell Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


[packard bell] [easynote E6310]


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---ALL SYSTEM76 LAPTOPS--- Current Rating = *****


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Sony Laptops available = 1 | Current Rating = *


-[Sony] [Vaio PCG-SRX51P] [PIII M low voltage 800 MHz] [256]


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Toshiba Laptops available = 5 | Current Rating = **


-[Toshiba] [Satellite M50-231]

-[Toshiba] [Satellite M100] [Core Duo 1.73Ghz] [512Mb Ram] [950vga (GPU)]

-[Toshiba] [Satellite A100/500] - 1024 MB RAM - NVidia GeForce Go 7300 - 120GB HDD

-[Toshiba] [Satellite A100-585 Multi Media] [Intel Centrino Duo @ 1.67ghz X 1.67ghz] [1024 mg ram] [60 gig hard disk.]

[Toshiba] [Satellite M110/L00] [Intel CoreDuo 1.6GHz] [512MB]

-[Toshiba] [Satellite A55-S1064] [Celeron M 1.6 Ghz] [512Mb]

Toshiba A135-S2246 CeleronM 512MB
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[aysiu]

I was thinking of starting a thread like this. Thanks for starting it for me.

I would like it to go more the direction of your title (laptops that work perfectly) than your description (say what they had to do to get everything working), though. We already have a pretty comprehensive list of "what I had to do to get it working": https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops

I'll offer, though, that a Dell Inspiron 500m (if you can get one used) works perfectly with Feisty Fawn--keys, power management (including resume from suspend), sound, screen resolution, etc.

[Mazza558]

I was thinking of starting a thread like this. Thanks for starting it for me.

I would like it to go more the direction of your title (laptops that work perfectly) than your description (say what they had to do to get everything working), though. We already have a pretty comprehensive list of "what I had to do to get it working": https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops

I'll offer, though, that a Dell Inspiron 500m (if you can get one used) works perfectly with Feisty Fawn--keys, power management (including resume from suspend), sound, screen resolution, etc.

Okay, that's a good idea. I'll edit my original post.

[Compucore]

For me it was the IBM R32 model 2658-BQU. is a good model. to work with I am running Feisty Fawn on it ight now with a new upgrade of a 512 megs of ram with the curent 256 megs that came with it already.got it free from work. my original ibm thinkpad was the iseries model 1161-11f paid $100 for that on it running either dapper drake or xubuntu on that one. And that one is already set to the max of close to 192 megs of ram on that. Both are great. Just need to conig the internal modem for it. WHich is a pain because they are windows modems. But once configure they are good to use.

Compucore

[aysiu]

Okay, that's a good idea. I'll edit my original post.

Great! I'd love to have an easy reference for when people ask "What's the best laptop to get for Ubuntu?"

The hardware compatibility list is a bit much to wade through.

[Mazza558]

Great! I'd love to have an easy reference for when people ask "What's the best laptop to get for Ubuntu?"

The hardware compatibility list is a bit much to wade through.

I'll start a list in the original post.

[Matt Yun]

I was thinking of starting a thread like this. Thanks for starting it for me.

I would like it to go more the direction of your title (laptops that work perfectly) than your description (say what they had to do to get everything working), though. We already have a pretty comprehensive list of "what I had to do to get it working": https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops

I'll offer, though, that a Dell Inspiron 500m (if you can get one used) works perfectly with Feisty Fawn--keys, power management (including resume from suspend), sound, screen resolution, etc.

I've used Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude D600 since Hoary Hedgehog, and I've found that everything (except for the modem which I've never used) worked fine. I never had to implement any of the BIOS tweaks that are suggested from the hardware support wiki.

While using the Intel ipw2100 with earlier versions of Ubuntu necessitated manual configuration for wpa_supplicant, I've found that with the recent Dapper/Edgy/Feisty editions and network-manager-gnome, wireless is now just as easy as WindowsXP.

The video card is an ATI Radeon Mobility 9000, so I use the open-source ati xorg drivers, which I found was faster than the binary fglrx drivers anyway. glxgears (-iacknowledgethatthisisnotabenchmark) gives me 5000-5200 fps, after decreasing my colour depth to 16-bit from 24-bit and using these xorg.conf tweaks suggested on the sidux.com forums. Beryl is installs out-of-the-box with the Ubuntu Beryl Project repositories.

[Phatfiddler]

Gateway ROG4500 with Pentium M 1.5GHz processor | 512Mb of RAM

Processor - stepped frequency works (600MHz - 1.5GHz), works out of box
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 - detected and works out of box
Screen - detected and works at correct resolution. Had to configure refresh rate
Synaptics touchpad - detected and works out of box
Intel PROwireless - detected but had to install network manager to get working. Did not require ndiswrapper or any other programs
Sound card - detected and works out of box
CD/DVD drive - detected, reads, writes out of box
Ethernet adapter - detected and works out of box

[icechen1]

Gateway MX6214 works great.Need 915resolution to solve the resolution problem though.
514 mb processor
80 gb disk space
celeron M
-also wireless need ndiswrapper to work
-haven't tested SD card reader,audio recording

[jimrz]

IBM ThinkPad T42
Pentium M 1.8 Ghz
1 Gb DDR ram
ATI Radeon mobility 9600 128Mb (using "ati" driver as not supported for hw accel by "fglrx")
IBM a/b/g wifi Atheros 5212 chipset
Bluetooth

everything just works OTB