I bought an HP zbook studio g8 and I am running ubuntu on it. It worked pretty good when I first installed it but some things weren't working correctly like the

I bought an HP zbook studio g8 and I am running ubuntu on it. It worked pretty good when I first installed it but some things weren't working correctly like the hdmi output and the sd card reader. Then I disabled secure boot and now everything I have tested works out of the box. I am running the latest edition of Ubuntu Desktop. I usually try to avoid HP but the new ZBook line works perfectly on linux with good support. Altough it uses Nvidia which is kind of cranky with the drivers and I also think the battery drain is a bit too heavy on linux. I am happy with it tho. I got a great keyboard, trackpad, screen and is plenty fast for me and my use case. I think I got it for around the price you wanted it and I even think they ship Ubuntu pre-installed in the US.