[TriLUG] laptop shopping

[Ken M]

Ubuntu supposedly has the best "touch" support of the low entry point
distros.  I have been trying to make friends with Ubuntu again since
that is what I am using for the kids computers these days.  Also since I
use a lot of music software on Linux I wanted to check out KXstudio.

Plus as much as I love Arch sometimes I don't want to think... no
seriously I said that...

Anyway this is all tangential to the conversation about suspending to
RAM.

Ken

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 13:51 -0500, Joseph S. Tate wrote:
> While the suspend to ram and disk seem to work on my Dell XPS 12, after 3
> months with it, the touchscreen and touchpad still work in 1999 mode (no
> gestures, no multi-touch support, no palm detection). My wifi drops out
> occasionally and I have to go into airplane mode and back to get it back.
> When on an external display, I get lots of flickering lines and background
> image damage, and the webcam driver seems to be tinting everything green
> and not v.synching correctly.
> 
> Also I don't like page-up-page-down as fn-keys, but I love the size, power
> (core i7 quad, 8GB Ram, 128GB SSD), and battery life.
> 
> I've downloaded (after much research) the Ubuntu image that they put on the
> XPS 13, so I want to try that to see if there's some non-OSS drivers
> they're using that works on my system.
> 
> But it's still better than Windows 8. ;-P (not a ringing endorsement)
> 
> Suspend to disk was disabled by Ubuntu about 2 years ago by default. You
> can enable it easily though. See
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/94754/how-to-enable-hibernation
> 
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:02 AM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> > Any recommendations for a laptop that has suspend-to-disk (hibernate to
> > disk) and Just Works (TM)?  I used to love the feature on my old Sony Vaio
> > PCG-505GX, but it's been out of date for a decade, and my current
> > MacBookPro (which doesn't have it) is showing signs of advanced age.
> >
> > Preferences:
> > 1. small-ish (17" is too big... 12"-14" would be nice)
> > 2. supports suspend-to-disk under Linux
> > 3. decent video card (NV would be nice)
> > 4. wireless works under Linux without too much trouble
> >
> > I like Sony and I like Lenovo, but I'm not stuck on either one.  I refuse
> > to use Compaq/HP/Dell.
> >
> > Looking forward to the suggestions....
> >
> > --
> Joseph Tate