Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-05-03 Thread Aaron West via Hampshire
All the advice so far is absolutely spot on! So don't listen to me, however... One thing I would add is that making it work(For me at least) can be half the fun! The previous laptop I had was an Toshiba Satellite P70-B-11P with both Intel and AMD graphics, this laptop worked 100% flawlessly with a

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-05-03 Thread Ian Park via Hampshire
I've found that PC Specialist's laptops are pretty good - we bought one there a few months back for the local branch of Benenden Healthcare, for around £500 - quite a high spec one, with 480GB SSD. I installed Linux Mint 18 on it, and it all worked flawlessly - then I had to start again with Wi

Re: [Hampshire] Southampton Python meeting - detecting clickbait using machine learning

2017-05-03 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Thanks for the announcement Thomas. I'm hoping to make it along tonight, as long as I can escape work on time. Andy On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote: Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group meeting will be a workshop on text processing and machine learning. I