Have you already bought it Peter? I have found http://linlap.com/ usually pretty accurate and useful when it comes to Lenovo Thinkpads at least. Maybe the laptop you are interested in is listed there?
On 5 May 2017 at 12:13, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Thanks to all those who replied, Thomas Kluyver, Ian Park, Aaron West > and particularly Ben Parsonage. Ben - I think you have solved the > problem. The Dell Inspiron machine looks like it will do very well. I > investigated Entroware some time ago, but they do not reply to email. > At the time I was looking for a screen with greater vertical > resolution, but they all cost a great deal more. I have now made the > particular program in question detect the screen size and adjust > the output window accordingly, so that is no longer a problem. > > Thomas: >> 1. Graphics cards: If you're not interested in gaming, stick to >> Intel integrated graphics. > > Only worthwhile game I've ever known was bz, which ran on a Silicon > Graphics Unix cluster (this was years ago). The Dell machine does > indeed have Intel graphics. > > Aaron: >> making it work(For me at least) can be half the fun! > > I dare say it is, but I have other things to do and would rather have > something that "just works" with Linux already installed. > > Peter Alefounder. > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------