Ubuntu on Asus X401A

The Asus X401A laptop has been awarded the status of Certified for Ubuntu.

Please note that for pre-installed systems:

  1. The system is available in some regions with a special image of Ubuntu pre-installed by the manufacturer. It takes advantage of the hardware features for this system and may include additional software. You should check when buying the system whether this is an option.
  2. Standard images of Ubuntu may not work at all on the system or may not work well, though Canonical and computer manufacturers will try to certify the system with future standard releases of Ubuntu.

Releases

Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64-bit

Certification notes

Updates required
This system requires all available updates to be applied in order to work properly.
Slow Resume From Suspend
This system does not not meet our performance criteria for resuming from suspend, but suspend/resume is functional and other functionality is not affected.

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64-bit

Certification notes

Hibernate
Hibernate may fail on this system

Hardware overview

This system was tested with these key components:

Processor
Intel Corporation Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2370M CPU @ 2.40GHz
BIOS
American Megatrends Inc. X401A.205
BIOS
American Megatrends Inc. X401A.210
Video
Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Network
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
Storage
Unknown ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB