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[GonzaloVC]

Great machine!
Adding it to Santa's list right now ;-)

[YellowApple]

So much want.

[Unaccounted4]

Why am I so poor?!

[marlor]

Why are they selling laptops with Ubuntu 12.10? Makes no sense when they could have loaded it with Ubuntu 12.04 and the user would not have to worry about a new version for 4 years.

This is one of the major reason(s) why Linux has not become a major player like MS Windows. Things are changing in the Linux world but the many distributions must realize that they need to stop trying to have the latest and greatest OS and start supporting it longer for at least 5 - 7 years. The average person just cannot cope with the constant changing all the time.

[jlauro]

21" and only 1080p?

[Alexandre1545]

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Why are they selling laptops with Ubuntu 12.10? Makes no sense when they could have loaded it with Ubuntu 12.04 and the user would not have to worry about a new version for 4 years. This is one of the major reason(s) why Linux has not become a major player like MS Windows. Things are changing in the Linux world but the many distributions must realize that they need to stop trying to have the latest and greatest OS and start supporting it longer for at least 5 - 7 years. The average person just cannot cope with the constant changing all the time.

Debian ?

[useruwi5]

They should be selling Ubuntu with 12.04. Selling 12.10 makes no sence. What happens when 12.04 support ends in how many months? after paying $1,499 not including tax and shipping? Steep price to pay for a os thats only supported for a short time. I'm sure this was just a oversight.

[useruwi5]

Sorry, i ment 12.10 support ends not 12.04

[waldojim]

For those complaining about the version, understand that this might be an issue they don't have a choice over. Sometimes, it comes down to hardware support. Understand that some of us don't have any problems upgrading the system when the new versions come out either...

It is a very nice machine, and appears to have more than enough power behind it. The only questions I have will be: A. What kind of battery life can we expect? And B: Is Steam ever going to get off its laurels and give us a freaking library of games to play!?

[linuxrants7xpg]

useruwi5, on 21 November 2012 - 08:38 AM, said:

They should be selling Ubuntu with 12.04. Selling 12.10 makes no sence. What happens when 12.04 support ends in how many months? after paying $1,499 not including tax and shipping? Steep price to pay for a os thats only supported for a short time. I'm sure this was just a oversight.

Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, and 12.10 is not. That means that support for 12.04 will end in roughly 53 months. Compare that to non-LTS 12.10, which will be supported for the next 23 months, and maybe it will make more sense.

[JohnShepherd]

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This is one of the major reason(s) why Linux has not become a major player like MS Windows. Things are changing in the Linux world but the many distributions must realize that they need to stop trying to have the latest and greatest OS and start supporting it longer for at least 5 - 7 years. The average person just cannot cope with the constant changing all the time.

Please. Seriously? NO ONE is a major player like MS Windows because MS is a monopoly. Period. The ghost of Steve Jobs could develop an OS that never crashed and paid you to use it and Windows would continue to dominate the desktop thanks to vendor lock-in. Mobile phones, tablets, web apps, the cloud, virtualization and a renewed emphasis on cross-platform development along with Java, Mono, python, etc. are finally chipping cracks in that wall.

I can't imagine users complaining that their OS just won't stop getting better and adding features so they're going to get rid of it. :-) As is, people are buying new phones every two years (or sooner, especially Apple fans). The new and shiny has not become a turnoff from what I can see.
Thanks to what you're advocating, people encounter problems like Win7 install DVDs having no native support for input peripherals connected to USB 3 ports, etc. I had a similar issue with XP's installer not recognizing large SATA drives and needing to insert another disk with SATA drivers, etc. I'll take 6-8 month updates with new drivers, thank you very much, rather than waiting up to three years to gain native support for the most recent tech.

[JohnShepherd]

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They should be selling Ubuntu with 12.04. Selling 12.10 makes no sence. What happens when 12.04 support ends in how many months? after paying $1,499 not including tax and shipping? Steep price to pay for a os thats only supported for a short time. I'm sure this was just a oversight.

What happens? Um... they upgrade to the newest version, the same as any other user on Earth? Linux users aren't Windows users. They're smart enough to know that they don't need to buy a new laptop to upgrade the OS, which is what you seem to be under the illusion one needs to do (by citing the cost of the laptop). In that case, welcome to the wonderful and exciting world of Linux, where the OS can be upgraded to the latest version over the Internet for free! Once you try it, you'll never want to go back to Windows.

[Svartalf]

Heh... This explains why the 17" model disappeared from their lineup from about spring-time to now.

Definitely on my list of things to get at this point.

[Suriv]

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Heh... This explains why the 17" model disappeared from their lineup from about spring-time to now. Definitely on my list of things to get at this point.

I am a fan of 17 inch laptops as they are not too large but still have enough screen space.