On 9 January 2015 at 14:41, Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2015-01-09 15:03 GMT+01:00, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On 9 January 2015 at 13:54, Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:43:58 +0000 Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux >>>> compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking >>>> for anything superspecced to replaced it, just annoyances like reduced >>>> battery life and the wifi switch playing up are starting to build up >>>> (plus people have poked the screen one too many times). It's a 13.3" >>>> screen with 100GB hard drive and I guess I'd be hoping to find >>>> something similar with a maximum budget of about £500. >>>> >> >>> I like my Dell XPS 13 (2.9 lbs) with 13.3" and 1920x1080 resolution and it >>> actually came with Ubuntu (which I promptly stripped for Fedora) which >>> also meant that I did not have to pay the Windoze tax. >>> >> >> Yes, they look really nice! Was browsing them yesterday. Unfortunately >> a bit over budget as not my main computer and wont be getting loads of >> use. > > In that case, you may want to have a look at this: > http://ktgee.net/post/49423737148/thinkpad-guide > > The one I've got recently (X201 with a Core i5 CPU and 4GB RAM) for > about $200 is well supported by Fedora, and may be good enough for > what you want to use it (it certainly is for me). > Thanks for this pointer, I did go refurb in the end (a UK company called tier1online, who provided pretty good service), and got a i5 T420 (the machine EGO II mentioned). Everything seemed to work out of the box and start speed (with an SSD) on F22 beta is shockingly quick. (A clean windows install for dual boot involved an hour downloading and installing drivers, though credit to tier1, it had all the right drivers on it when it got here.) -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
