workstation marketing - hardware

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 22 20:42:09 UTC 2014



On 10/22/2014 03:30 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Out of the Lenovo's, only the Yoga Pro 2 [1] looks visually appealing
> enough to make Fedora shine, with the downside that another distro
> "owns" orange (this is from a purely visual point of view, as the
> Lenovos are nice to work with, but that's another thing). Another issue
> with that is that it comes with a big windows logo on the front.

I have the Thinkpad Yoga... very similar look (no orange, smoother 
chassis) but we could edit out the windows button.

http://www.lenovo.com/images/gallery/1060x596/lenovo-laptop-convertible-thinkpad-yoga-black-laptop-mode-4.jpg

> On the other hand, the blue Zenbook has the upside that it's blue, and
> that's a color that is strongly connected with Fedora [2]. I'm not sure
> if others have been referring to the more common silver model in the
> thread, but if you can get hold of the blue one, that's a big win,
> especially if the lightning makes the silver one ending up looking all
> white.

If anybody has one in the Boston area...
>
> The Samsung Series 9 might also be a good pick [3]

Ray has one of these so I can get a photo of that too.

~m


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