Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-06-29 Thread Peter Alefounder via Hampshire
> Have you already bought it Peter? Yes, I have, thanks, Imran. I got one of these: m.dell.com/mt/www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-3552-laptop-ubuntu/pd?oc=cn55231_id=inspiron-15-3552-laptop-ubuntu a Dell Inspiron. I prefer Debian to Ubuntu, but it's good enough. I now know why people choose

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-06-28 Thread Samuel Penn via Hampshire
On Friday 05 May 2017 11:13:02 Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: > Thanks to all those who replied, Thomas Kluyver, Ian Park, Aaron West > and particularly Ben Parsonage. Ben - I think you have solved the > problem. The Dell Inspiron machine looks like it will do very well. I > investigated

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-06-27 Thread Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire
Have you already bought it Peter? I have found http://linlap.com/ usually pretty accurate and useful when it comes to Lenovo Thinkpads at least. Maybe the laptop you are interested in is listed there? On 5 May 2017 at 12:13, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: >

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-05-05 Thread Peter Alefounder via Hampshire
Thanks to all those who replied, Thomas Kluyver, Ian Park, Aaron West and particularly Ben Parsonage. Ben - I think you have solved the problem. The Dell Inspiron machine looks like it will do very well. I investigated Entroware some time ago, but they do not reply to email. At the time I was

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

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

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-05-02 Thread Ben Parsonage via Hampshire
It will probably work fine but given the limited information it is very difficult to say. It will probably have Intel graphics (a good thing for battery life), and makes the graphics more likely to just work, but don't let this put you off nvidia and and GPUs with a bit of effort they can be

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-05-02 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Tue, May 2, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: > If I were to get one of these: > >

[Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-05-02 Thread Peter Alefounder via Hampshire
If I were to get one of these: https://www.tesco.com/direct/acer-156-es15-intel-celeron-4gb-ram-1tb-hdd-dvdrw-red-laptop/392-0906.prd?skuId=392-0906=sku_cmp=ppc*PX+-+DNF+Electrical*PX+-+Shopping+GSC+-+Argos+-+Technology+-+Electricals*PRODUCT+GROUP392-0906*=COLH6NjdlNMCFdUV0wodWCkLEA=aw.ds would