On 22.12.13 23:00, Lauchlin Wilkinson wrote: > Something like the LENOVO B590 or E540 might be a good place to start > looking. I still find that most Lenovo laptops are reasonably well built, > cheap, have good support and will run Ubuntu straight out of the box.
+1 Even Debian installed without effort on the Lenovo Thinkpad that I bought 2 years ago. (With LXDE instead of Gnome, for faster boot.) I've been happy with it since. It has a 15" wide aspect-ratio screen, which I've come to appreciate, since I always have 4 windows open. Unfortunately, the only model number gumpf I can see on the back is "Type 1143-6YM" and "Product ID: 11436YM". Anyway, after 2 years, the current models will be called something else. The battery life is only 3.5 hours, but it's holding up well under terrible neglect. Buy a second battery pack on day one? > Maxed out RAM and an after market SSD (if you are comfortable doing the > upgrade yourself) would also be on my shopping list. The SSD might just get rid of the spin-up delay when accessing files after a period without disk I/O. That would remove a minor annoyance. And though I don't have its weight, it's probably over 2.5 kg. Erik -- You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
