Hi Guys,
Need laptop advice as the choices are making me dizzy.
Last purchase was refurbished Think Pad (XP) 5 years ago.
Understand my wish list will require some compromise.
Basic plan is 500GB HD 300GB Win 7 Pro (64 bit); 200GB Mint 15
Min 14 inch screen, 15.6 looks good
good built-in c
While I do love MemEx perhaps you might want to purchase from a provider
who supports Linux. System 76 is one of the better known ones & below
is a link to a system close to what you want for around $750:
* https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/gazp9
Looks like you can still get Windows 7 at Mem
Your basically looking for any ultrabook they have in stock. I'd personally go
with one of the asus models, though check and ensure it comes with the 2 year
warranty and not the 1 year.
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I've got a HP envy dvd6 that I bought for about $900. It has 8G memory,
750G hard drive (that I replaced with ssd), i7-3630QM proccessor, 15" HD
screen and Nvidea GeForce GT 630M. It's not an ultrabook (which means I
also have a cd drive etc) but it is still pretty lightweight. Oh and it
also has a
One thing I can recommend. Do the same thing that I did when I bought
my last laptop. Take a USB Key or CD with the Live distro you are
planning to install & test it. It freaked the salespeople out who then
called over a manager but when I explained what I was doing & there was
no harm being don
good point. Don't guess or take the risk. TQ
On 14-01-04 04:30 PM, TekBudda wrote:
> One thing I can recommend. Do the same thing that I did when I bought
> my last laptop. Take a USB Key or CD with the Live distro you are
> planning to install & test it. It freaked the salespeople out who the
One thing that bugs me about laptops that are sold in Canada is the
keyboard with the extra keys like the pound symbol etc. To fit these keys
the keyboard usually has shortened shift keys and they relocate the '\'
key to make room for them. I find a laptop keyboards bad enough without
all those e
If you were happy with your ThinkPad, here's an option.
I have a lenovo E530 laptop that I bought a year and a half ago from Memory
Express. It is similar to this one:
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX46916
I run kubuntu 12.04 LTS on it and haven't had any problems. I only run
linux on
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