Sunny wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Troy <troythetechguy at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm considering purchasing the Acer Aspire AS4730-4857 notebook from >> newegg.com, looks like a great buy. However, I want to be able to run >> Linux, preferably Ubuntu on this notebook. Does anyone have experience >> running Linux on this model, or on Acer notebooks in general? >> Yes - I've in general found the Acer laptops to be fairly non-quirky in that regard, other than the possibility of some issues with drivers for the wireless cards, etc - but that's true of most notebooks. >> > > According to a customer review on newegg (user SuperShawnieP), it runs > linux very well: > <http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=34-115-543&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&Keywords=(keywords)&Page=2> > > In general, I have installed ubuntu and opensuse on 2 acer laptops w/o > any problem. > > Cheers > > >