Certified laptops can not be found anywhere else

Bug #694714 reported by Schwarzburg
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu-Certification
Won't Fix
Undecided
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Bug Description

I was looking for a new laptop and tried to compare the notebooks found in stores with the certificated notebooks in "http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/"
But the notebooks that got a certificate can nowhere be found on the internet. Example:

>>The Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 0199-22X laptop has been awarded the status of Ready on Ubuntu PC (x86).
>>Certification notes
>>10.10
>>This system is fully ready for Ubuntu.

Steps to reproduce:
Search "Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 0199-22X" with google: the results are only Ubuntu hardware certification and OpenSuse hardware db.

Search "Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 0199-22X" on the amazon.de page: "Ihre Suche nach "Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 0199-22X" ergab leider keine Produkttreffer. " which means no hits.

Steps to fix:
add more information to the certificate. For example:

"Lenovo ThinkPad 0199-22X (also known as ThinkPad XXX, full specification of certified product: ...)"

Revision history for this message
Victor Tuson Palau (vtuson) wrote :

The data listed in this case is given to us by the manufacturer. I seem to be able to find information if I run the same search in Google:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-48NT8D&sitestyle=lenovo

Seems from the information that I can find here that the results systems are available for purchase under Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14".

In general I agree that would be useful to have a link between the certificate listed and where you can buy it. However this is not a feature offered by our website at the moment.

Revision history for this message
Schwarzburg (stefan-schwarzburg) wrote :

Although I understand that the website does not offer this feature at the moment, it would really be great if there was more information.

Regarding this specific laptop: I understand that it is a ThinkPad Edge 14, but which one? the one with Core i3, Turin II, Athlon II, Core i5? And so on with the other components. So I still think that this specific laptop and others on the list can not be found "to buy" anywhere.

Changed in ubuntu-certification:
status: New → Won't Fix
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