In Article <20170903133817.hppdseouwbc3kvjk@grond>, Jonas Hedman <jonas.hed...@fripost.org> writes:
> Hello I hope that is not OT for this list. > > Basically I'm on the hunt for a newish laptop on which I naturally want > to run Debian. I'm a student and I spend most of my daily outandabout > computer time reading pdfs, writing LaTeX docs, surfing and doing some > light coding, no heavy duty stuff in other words. I use i3vm and I > generally like to keep things as light and minimal as feasibly possible. > > I really value light weight and good battery life and my upper bound on prize > is somewhere around 875$ (~7K SEK). Memory should be greater than or > equal to 2GB and an sdd would be nice. > > I know very little about hardware and I'm not quite sure where or how to > start looking. I though the Lenovo Thinkpad 13 looked promising but it's a > bit > over my price target. Could chromeboosk be something to look into? I > know the older thinkpads has good debian support but if I remember > correctly they are also very heavy. > > As a small reference: I made due with a Asus EEE PC 1005HA for a number > of years and it generally worked well for my purposes but it died and > surfing was a pain so I'm looking to upgrade a bit from that. > > Any suggestions? There is no option for intalling under chromebook. People should install Linux always with chromebook. That is why i did buy chromebook. Someone did try to install FreeBSD, but it is very very very hard. Actually i am happy with Linux in chromebook~ Sincerely, Byung-Hee. -- ^고맙습니다 _救濟蒼生_ 감사합니다_^))//
