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?
>

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


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