Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-07-03 Thread sreepriya
Hello, Thanks for all your suggestions. It helped me to get a better idea. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:25 PM, sreepriya sreepriya1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Thanks for all your replies. I still couldn't find a

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-07-03 Thread sreepriya
@Arun: I just saw your comment to avoid top posting. I am very sorry for repeating it again. I didn't notice the mistake before. I will make sure I adhere to the rules of the list from now. Regards, (Lokah Samasthah Sukhino Bhavanthu) -- Sreepriya C University of Trento, Italy

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-07-01 Thread Arun Khan
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:25 PM, sreepriya sreepriya1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Thanks for all your replies. I still couldn't find a Dell laptop that sticks to my needs and budgets. I need to do some memory profiling running VMs and thus* processing speed and RAM size is crucial

[Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-06-30 Thread sreepriya
Hello, I want to purchase a Dell laptop with the configuration as i7- Intel core, 8 GB RAM as min specification. I am a regular Ubuntu user. I don't use Windows and I don't want to buy Windows 8 along with that. Sadly, I couldn't find an option like that along with the specified configuration.

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-06-30 Thread Sundaram KR
I want to purchase a Dell laptop... I am a regular Ubuntu user. Recently Dell went private, and Microsoft is a major investor. I tried installing Linux on Dell Optiplex series and gave up after tearing my hair out. It is painful. Dell has discontinued Linux desktop offerings, so if you want a

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-06-30 Thread Mohan Sundaram
Dell has high end laptops with Ubuntu alone. Difficult to get without Windows in India. Regards Mohan Sundaram Mobile mail, please pardon autocomplete /autoreplace typos On Jun 30, 2014 3:20 PM, sreepriya sreepriya1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to purchase a Dell laptop with the

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-06-30 Thread Mohan Sundaram
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Sundaram KR sundaram.ramachand...@kggroup.com wrote: I want to purchase a Dell laptop... I am a regular Ubuntu user. Recently Dell went private, and Microsoft is a major investor. I tried installing Linux on Dell Optiplex series and gave up after tearing my

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-06-30 Thread Hardik Dalwadi
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:20 PM, sreepriya sreepriya1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to purchase a Dell laptop with the configuration as i7- Intel core, 8 GB RAM as min specification. I am a regular Ubuntu user. I don't use Windows and I don't want to buy Windows 8 along with that. Sadly,

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-06-30 Thread pavithran
On 30 June 2014 11:54, Sundaram KR sundaram.ramachand...@kggroup.com wrote: I want to purchase a Dell laptop... I am a regular Ubuntu user. Recently Dell went private, and Microsoft is a major investor. I tried installing Linux on Dell Optiplex series and gave up after tearing my hair out.

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-06-30 Thread sreepriya
Hello everyone, Thanks for all your replies. I still couldn't find a Dell laptop that sticks to my needs and budgets. I need to do some memory profiling running VMs and thus* processing speed and RAM size is crucial for my work*. (i7, 8GB). I was looking for other options than Dell and found

Re: [Ilugc] Dell laptop (i7, 8GB RAM) with Ubuntu

2014-06-30 Thread kadimisetty avinash
ASUS is the best when you compare it with DELL and HP. But some of ASUS previous versions have a touchpad problem with Ubuntu. So check that out. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:25 PM, sreepriya sreepriya1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Thanks for all your replies. I still couldn't find a