Is there any update on this? I'd nearly convinced myself that a Lafite Pro 15.6 (https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/lafite-pro-15/) with a NVME SSD fits my needs but so far as I can see here on the forums there is no supported way to run that with Linux.
Just got my Lafite II i7-6500
Ubuntu 15.04 doesn't support the 8260 wireless card (yet), so I'm trying a pre-release version of Ubuntu 15.10 - the final release is due out in a few days so it's unlikely to change much.
The good news is that everything I've tried so far just works:
- booting...
Hi,
I'm looking for:
an all day, every day fast work laptop
in addition to normal office apps, it will run development databases with web front-ends
usually have a load of browser tabs open on multiple desktops/workspaces
no gaming
occasional video editing
sometimes attached to external large...
Looking at the list of laptops offered, there are just two models with 5th gen CPU's: Genesis V and Lafite
Is that just because 5th gen is newer or that 4th gen is generally "better" for laptops? If so, in what way better? Or some other reason?