From my experience Dell is Linux friendly. I'd double check if it will
run Linux though. I think the new HP's will not.
Last year when I bought a new Dell workstation. After telling them I was
going to install Linux, Dell sent me a Win 8 disk so I could go back to
Win if I wanted to. And the disk was free.
On 2014-07-18 11:38, Jim March wrote:
You should be able to get Linux running on that thing. You may be
forced to stick with a major distro that knows how to deal with the
new BIOS-ish situation, as opposed to something extremely
"hipster"...but you're not stuck with Win8.x.
Jim
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Kevin Fries <ke...@fries-biro.com>
wrote:
Yea but it runs Windows 8, the worst OS since ME.
The Chrome book will save you in usability feature, plus not having
to buy an office siite, and an antivirus, etc.
I'd go with the chromebook.
But that's me.
Kevin
On Jul 18, 2014 11:51 AM, <techli...@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
Thanks for your feedback!! The price point is very good!! If
the performance is there then it would be a steal.
On 2014-07-18 10:09, Jim March wrote:
If we check the CPU specs:
http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz
[1]
[3]
...we see that surpprisingly, it HAS the Intel "VTx" hardware
virtualization
extension. That means getting a virtual machine running on it for
at
least basic stuff will work at reasonable speeds.
If we got to the CPUBench site we see it has a "performance score"
of
just under 1,000 which...is...bad-ish but not terrible like some of
the Atom crap.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html [2] [4]
Upshot: you could do real work with that puppy, with a modern Linux
distro and even light virtualization (running a copy of WinXP or
another distro as a VM on it).
Jim
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, <techli...@phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:
Better than a Chromebook?
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop
[3]
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