“Will this model run VMware Player or Workstation, and an Ubuntu Linux virtual machine without problems?”
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You can turn on a virtualization setting in the bios, so I'd imagine that it could handle a virtual machine. If you are going to do a lot of intensive work with Windows and the virtual machine, you'll probably want to upgrade the RAM, which can actually be expanded to 32 GB instead of the 16 GB reported by the Lenovo specs (I'm currently running 32 GB in this computer). As an alternative to virtualization, you could try dual booting. It was quite easy to setup as a dual boot system for Linux (Fedora 24) and Windows. Just used the built in utilities to shrink the Windows partition by almost half (the max it said it could shrink it), popped in my live USB, selected the empty partition for the install, and in a few minutes I had everything up and running. Everything worked, including the touchscreen, and if you are installing Ubuntu, it's probably quite easy to even switch to using the NVIDIA proprietary drivers for a performance boost or CUDA programming. Hope this helps!
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