Fusion Pro IV 15.6" Ubuntu 20.04 works perfectly out of box

[JEC]

I recently bought 15.6" Fusion Pro IV series laptop with the following specs:

Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor 10750H (2.6GHz, 5GHz Turbo)
16GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (1 x 16GB)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 Ti - 4.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1TB CORSAIR MP400 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 3480 MB/R, 1880 MB/W)

It came pre installed with windows 10 but I had no trouble replacing this with Ubuntu 20.04. No playing around with bios or anything, just plugged in the USB media and ubuntu installer came up straight away. I did notice in the bios that boot from USB media was set to the highest priority, I don't know if this is standard or was changed by the technician who set the laptop up for his/my convenience.

All hardware recognised and runs properly as far as I can tell, although I have yet to do anything particularly demanding on the machine. I will update post if I find any problems.

Battery life seems pretty decent, estimated 6-8 hours from full charge under minor load. Writing this now with a couple of programs open and its saying 6h 20 at 95%, which I am more than happy with!

I was concerned that I would have to do some tinkering to set up some keyboard functionality based on some other posts I have read on the forums, but alas, everything works perfectly out the box. I have a caps lock light, and all the function keys seem to work (keyboard brightness, volume, screen brightness etc etc).

There was lots of screen tearing when running video, but this is an Ubuntu issue rather than anything to do with the computer. Found a very simple fix anyway.

Overall, extremely happy with the laptop! The laptop runs silently with light use, although you will notice the fans kick in if you start pushing the hardware at all due to what's under the hood and its size.

 

[MarkJames107]

Good to hear. I am expecting delivery of a Fusion Studio series today with Win 10 pre installed. I intend to set it as a dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04.

 

[frost]

Good to hear. I am expecting delivery of a Fusion Studio series today with Win 10 pre installed. I intend to set it as a dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04.

Anything to report on this? I'm currently planning the same thing (but mint). Curious to know whether it runs

 

[JEC]

Anything to report on this? I'm currently planning the same thing (but mint). Curious to know whether it runs

A couple of small issues I've found. For some reason charging sometimes gets briefly interrupted, and this causes an annoying beeping to play which I havent figured out how to turn off. It happens quite frequently when the laptop is under high load, if im opening lots of windows or playing games on high settings etc and can become quite annoying. I think its software related, but havent found a fix for it yet. Doesnt happen too often under my usual light use though so havent tried to hard to fix it.

Another thing is the keyboard lettering and keys themselves are almost the same colour and can become pretty difficult to see under some light conditions.

No other issues, would recommend.

 

[SpyderTracks]

A couple of small issues I've found. For some reason charging sometimes gets briefly interrupted, and this causes an annoying beeping to play which I havent figured out how to turn off. It happens quite frequently when the laptop is under high load, if im opening lots of windows or playing games on high settings etc and can become quite annoying. I think its software related, but havent found a fix for it yet. Doesnt happen too often under my usual light use though so havent tried to hard to fix it.

Another thing is the keyboard lettering and keys themselves are almost the same colour and can become pretty difficult to see under some light conditions.

No other issues, would recommend.

That usually denotes it's overheating, check temperatures when it's under load.

Sometimes the paste can be applied incorrectly and needs reapplying. That's in the worst case event, and it's not actually as bad as it sounds, doesn't take long and we can talk you through it if that is the case and you need help.

 

[Mnemonic]

For some reason charging sometimes gets briefly interrupted, and this causes an annoying beeping to play which I havent figured out how to turn off. It happens quite frequently when the laptop is under high load...

This can happen if your laptop is drawing more power than your power brick can supply.

 

[VadBer]

A couple of small issues I've found. For some reason charging sometimes gets briefly interrupted, and this causes an annoying beeping to play which I havent figured out how to turn off. It happens quite frequently when the laptop is under high load, if im opening lots of windows or playing games on high settings etc and can become quite annoying. I think its software related, but havent found a fix for it yet. Doesnt happen too often under my usual light use though so havent tried to hard to fix it.

Another thing is the keyboard lettering and keys themselves are almost the same colour and can become pretty difficult to see under some light conditions.

No other issues, would recommend.

Which distro are you using and with which laptop specs? I'm having screen issues (see https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/fusion-studio-ubuntu-popos-screen-issue.84502/)
Thanks