On Thu, Dec 13, 2012, at 03:22 PM, Sam Varghese wrote:

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:35:38PM +1100, Roger wrote:

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On 12/13/2012 10:41 AM, Sam Varghese wrote:

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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:00:01AM +1100, Jesse Stevens wrote:

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We're looking at replacing an aging workhorse Samsung laptop we use for lots of video transcoding with Ubuntu and occasionally having to boot into Windows 7 for some ugly BrightAuthor usage.

We want to get one of the new Alienware M14x laptops but it appears most come preinstalled with Windows 8 when buying them off the shelf.

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I've seen one case [1] of a Ubuntu/Win 8 dual-boot on a Lenovo laptop; whether this install was done as ordinary mortals do is not clear.

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From my personal experience, you can only have Windows 8 and Ubuntu on the same machine on separate drives [2]. This install was done in the bog standard way.

Frankly that is how I would do it, 2 separate drives. It's arguably more cumbersome but when windows fails you still have a working laptop.

I haven't seen many laptops which can hold a second internal drive unless you get rid of the optical drive.

For what it's worth: Many Lenovo Thinkpads will take a MSATA drive (replacing the WWAN card) + SATA drive + optical drive. Most of the current crop of Clevo/Metabox/Horize laptops will take two SATA drives + optical. - Graeme