Either the backlight or the inverter died in my 5-year-old Dell D820
laptop. Fixing it doesn't make financial sense, though I may throw it
on my rack and hook it up to my KVM for "something", as I've figured out
how to tell X to disable the internal monitor and use the external
monitor as the prima
> "David" == David Kramer writes:
David> Any comparisons of HP vs Lenovo, or specific models that have
David> worked or not worked with Linux would be great.
I don't have any experience with HP laptops, but I've been buying HP
desktops for my last two machines, and the sound is unrel
My company has transitioned from the dell d series to thinkpad T series and
the smaller x220s with good result. Not a lot of Linux experience on them
but they are solid systems for a decent price.
On Sep 29, 2012 10:38 PM, "David Kramer" wrote:
> Either the backlight or the inverter died in my 5
On 09/29/2012 11:04 PM, Laura Conrad wrote:
>> "David" == David Kramer writes:
>
> David> Any comparisons of HP vs Lenovo, or specific models that have
> David> worked or not worked with Linux would be great.
>
> I don't have any experience with HP laptops, but I've been buying HP
>
I just got a Dell Inspiron i15R with an Intel i7, 8g RAM, 1T disk, usb3,
wirelesss-N, HDMI, USB3, WebCam, and DVD+/-RW at Microcenter, I haven't
plugged in the HDMI jack yet (I should do that soon), the install went
flawless. No drivers, no weirdness, just worked with Ubuntu 12.04
On 09/29/201
On 09/29/2012 10:38 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> Either the backlight or the inverter died in my 5-year-old Dell D820
> laptop. Fixing it doesn't make financial sense, though I may throw it
> on my rack and hook it up to my KVM for "something", as I've figured out
> how to tell X to disable the intern
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:38:40PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> Through work I can get significant discounts on Lenovo and HP laptops,
> so I'm focusing on them. I just priced out a ThinkPad T530, and
> it was over $900 with the discount, and I picked the slowest i5
> processor they have and 4GB R
On 09/30/2012 07:49 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 09/29/2012 10:38 PM, David Kramer wrote:
>> Either the backlight or the inverter died in my 5-year-old Dell D820
>> laptop. Fixing it doesn't make financial sense, though I may throw it
>> on my rack and hook it up to my KVM for "something", as I've
