In the vein of buying a laptop without an OS, The 'going linux' podcast from last week featured someone talking about how he had bought a t420 and got the specs up to the point that it beats out a new macbook pro.
http://ia801501.us.archive.org/25/items/glp295/glp295.mp3 It seems you can do it for about $500: http://www.pcliquidations.com/p24202-lenovo-thinkpad-t420-4236?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=24202&r160164167166161&gclid=Cj0KEQjwipi4BRD7t6zGl6m75IgBEiQAn7CfF1x3S52kwTA04y3NxyHEcO1sN8yU4JG8TzmO89J_aawaAmhq8P8HAQ Add a solid state drive, extra HDD in the media slot and some RAM and you should be close to $500. You could keep the price a little lower if you forewent on some of those specs. Warning: in the podcast he favours Kali and Elementary, and complains that Unity is a bit too slow. j On 7 April 2016 at 12:49, Wechsel Wirkung <wechselwirk...@mailbox.org> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > just buy one laptop without an os maybe. I buyed on notebooksbilliger just > an acer for 500 euro and > > installed just ubuntu by myself and i dont use ubuntu so long. its much > cheaper and easy > > Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> hat am 7. April 2016 um 18:39 > geschrieben: > > > > Hi Tony, > > I'm still using 12.04 - I thought it was supported for 5 years, so > there's another year to go. Also, I would expect a machine which runs > 12.04 would manage 16.04 without too much trouble, and might be cheaper > as it has an older OS on it. There's not much else around at the £200 mark. > > Jim > > On 07/04/16 17:31, Tony Pursell wrote: > > Hi Jim > > I wouldn't by that one as one comment say it comes with 12.04 (which is out > of support) and you can't easily update it because of the driver for the > Realtek wifi card. > > I would go for any other computer that will run 14.04 or 16.04 out of the > box, whether or not I had to overwrite the Windows on it. You don't save > much money by going for one with Ubuntu on it. > > Tony > > On 7 April 2016 at 16:26, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> Does anyone know of a supplier of Ubuntu laptops who would accept > payment>> by cheque? I'm told eBuyer don't for this one: > >> > >> http://www.ebuyer.com/705955-hp-455-quad-core-laptop-l8b56es > >> > >> Any alternatives in a similar price range (£200 after trade-in for this > >> one) would be appreciated too. > >> > >> JimP > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- James Morrissey (PhD) Researcher Extractive Industries and Governance | Oxfam America Public PGP Key <http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD3237D0FD928839B>
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