Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> escribió: >On 11 December 2013 18:19, Deryk Foote <deryk.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ubuntu is great at a lot of things, but keeping my cinder block of an >old >> Dell from kicking the proverbial bucket isn't one of them. Alas...I >suppose >> it's time to move on. >> >> I'm trying to find the most practical, linux-friendly machine >possible for >> under £500, with a screen between 11" and 13.3". It doesn't need to >be >> fantastic at anything in particular, as long as it's light and can >handle a >> bit of travel. >> >> It's mostly going to be a basic work machine; word processing and >> spreadsheets, web browsing, a bit of video and photo tweaking, and >lots of >> command-line work. >> >> Right now I'm taking a look at the Lenovo Edge >E335<http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/edge-series/e335/>, >> but I'd love any recommendations or advice you have to offer - thanks >in >> advance! >> >> Lenovo are on the Ubuntu approved hardware list: >http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/make/Lenovo/?category=Laptop > >My travelling machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 11 bought cheap as a >stopgap machine a couple of years ago and it's been very good for that. >I >replaced the HD with a cheap SSD to save power and it's good for four >or >five hours on wifi and two or three on a 3G dongle. There's a small >niggling fault with the mousepad that I have never been able to get to >the >bottom of but it's a nice little netbook for working in the pub :). > >S/
Thanks for the link! Really nice to see laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled, is there any rule of thumb to check that no additional drivers are needed i.e. non-free? Something like avoid nvidia for graphics cards and broadcom for wifi? -- Enviado desde mi teléfono con K-9 Mail. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
