I recently bought a lease return Lenovo T430 Thinkpad. Everything "just works" and the price was right. ($399 CDN) Very quiet.
Chris On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Mike Hodson <myst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Edward I would recommend a system76 laptop they've got lots of > different ones to meet your price point as well as your requirements for > quietness I could even put you in touch with someone who worked on them > specifically like actually worked for the company so he could attest to > their quietness or loudness. > > Otherwise you have pretty much a crapshoot of whether or not it's loud. > you could always go to the store to verify; but whether or not Linux works > on it properly, is another good question, some of them I found are okay, > others not so much. > > My current daily driver laptop is a Toshiba 12.5 inch foldable touchscreen > 4k laptop but it has the most horrible vacuum cleaner of a fan ; it works > well though with Linux as many of the Skylake ones recently seem to. > > Finally there's always the Lenovo ThinkPad models the t460s specifically > is actually a very nice one, I've been using it for work and it is actually > extremely quiet extremely lightweight 14.1 inch full HD no touch screen but > the laptop is really solid. > > Hope this helps and if any weird spelling errors exist that's because I'm > trying Google Voice typing I was I take a walk around Virginia Beach. > > Have a nice day Edward! > > Mike > > On Apr 1, 2017 2:41 PM, "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My Windows laptop is showing its age. I'd like to have a Linux laptop >> for the Ashland sprint. >> >> Any suggestions for a relatively powerful *quiet* Ubuntu laptop? >> >> Edward >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "leo-editor" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
