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