MicroCenter: Searching for Ubuntu Compatible PCs


I was at MicroCenter in Cambridge, Massachusetts yesterday. I was helping one of my students find a new laptop that would work well with Ubuntu. Of course this needed my personal assistance because the staff are not trained with anything other than Windows. But that’s an easily remedied problem in my eyes.
The sales staff did kindly let us test Ubuntu Karmic CDs in computers, to see how they worked. I got to see some of the problems in up and coming hardware and what we still have to work on.
One of the big problems was getting machines with Intel HD graphics chipsets to function at all. After grub the screen would go black and stay that way.
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