Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)

2012-03-21 Thread Vikas Upadhyay
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 03/20/2012 06:09 PM, Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
  RAM/Processor/Graphics card: Will not be playing any graphic intensive
  game, just want a decent to good performance (don’t want to pay extra for
  “awesome” graphics).  Intel i3 with 2GB RAM is what I am thinking about,
  and am not averse to AMD.

 I'm sure you need a decent graphics card to watch even regular/VHS videos.

 I assumed this is available in all laptops, do you mean it is not ?


   Extra features: Webcam, Bluetooth, microphone should work with Ubuntu,
  good
  speakers with loud enough sound.

 Try building bootable USB/Memstick image from an Ubuntu (better
 LinuxMint ISO) and keep it in your pocket while you go for a final deal.
 Boot off of this the machine you want to buy, see if all the things work
 as per your expectations. Hope that helps.

 Sounds like common sense, but honestly this did not occur to me. Thank you
very much.
If LinuxMint works perfectly fine, will Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04 too work for
me ?

Regards
Vikas
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Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)

2012-03-21 Thread Vikas Upadhyay
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) 
r...@linux-delhi.org wrote:

 On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
  On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
   [snip]
   Another thought, can an Android tablet (costing not more than Rs
   20K), replace a laptop which serves above mentioned requirement? If
   yes, any suggestion ?
 
  Even though a dev environment was announced for Android today, doubt
  if it's a great platform for development.

 Link to the IDE article:

 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/13/android_sdk/

 -- Raj
 --

Thanks Raj,
Actually for this even I am not sure what I am looking for.
For development purpose, I use my office environment. In case I want to
write small shell scripts or C programs (using gcc), is it possible on an
Android tablet ?
Don't have much idea of Android.
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Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)

2012-03-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
 [snip]
 Another thought, can an Android tablet (costing not more than Rs
 20K), replace a laptop which serves above mentioned requirement? If
 yes, any suggestion ?

Even though a dev environment was announced for Android today, doubt if 
it's a great platform for development.

Regards,

-- Raj
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Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)

2012-03-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
 On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
  [snip]
  Another thought, can an Android tablet (costing not more than Rs
  20K), replace a laptop which serves above mentioned requirement? If
  yes, any suggestion ?
 
 Even though a dev environment was announced for Android today, doubt
 if it's a great platform for development.

Link to the IDE article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/13/android_sdk/

-- Raj
-- 
Raj Mathur  || r...@kandalaya.org   || GPG:
http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68
It is the mind that moves   || http://schizoid.in   || D17F

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Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)

2012-03-20 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 03/20/2012 06:09 PM, Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
 RAM/Processor/Graphics card: Will not be playing any graphic intensive
 game, just want a decent to good performance (don’t want to pay extra for
 “awesome” graphics).  Intel i3 with 2GB RAM is what I am thinking about,
 and am not averse to AMD.

I'm sure you need a decent graphics card to watch even regular/VHS videos.

 Extra features: Webcam, Bluetooth, microphone should work with Ubuntu,  good
 speakers with loud enough sound.

Try building bootable USB/Memstick image from an Ubuntu (better
LinuxMint ISO) and keep it in your pocket while you go for a final deal.
Boot off of this the machine you want to buy, see if all the things work
as per your expectations. Hope that helps.

-- 
Balwinder S bdheeman Dheeman
(http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)


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