On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:11:38 +0100 Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
[ snip ] > > This machine was bought because it was buy now pay next year. The > alternative was watch my old system die of old age and do without! My > choices were limited. Interesting thread. I buy recycled electronics where I can for pale green reasons, and because my use need are simple, and I seem to have had good luck. Laptop: Lenovo thinkpad X200s around £130 off the well known auction site. Runs 12.04 really well, manages Firefox with a dozen tabs open, LibreOffice with large files loaded and a remote desktop connection to work desktop (I use rdesktop, remmina seems broken). I get 4 hours on battery with wifi. A student asked if it was 'the new Mac' the other week because Unity does look a bit cool. 4Gb ram. No chance on HDMI though. PC: ancient Xeon dual core HP workstation with a new Nvidia card of modest spec, cost just under £200 including the card. 4 Gb ram, seems to just run everything. I'm actually using IceWM of all things on this because I like tiled windows (3 by 3) on the big monitor. The HP case is huge and can be opened easily. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
