Dear Domem, I've been using a Dell latitude for the past X years. Very happy with it, it came with Ubuntu pre installed. I've been considering replacing it in the near future and have found that Dell still supply this range with pre installed Ubuntu. It's not listed on their web site though, you need to talk to one their advisors.
All the best, Alun Dr Alun R. Coker Associate Professor University College London Division of Medicine The Rayne Building 5 University Street London WC1E 6JF Tel: 020 7679 6703 Ext 46703 Web: www.ucl.ac.uk/pxmed<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pxmed> ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> on behalf of Domen Zafred <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 10:10:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 2019 mid-range & high-end LINUX laptops for structural biology Dear Tristan & Jon, thanks very much for sharing your experience! Kind regards, Domen On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:22 PM Jon Agirre <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear Domen, I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad p72 for both MX and cryoEM work last year and I am generally happy. The Xeon CPUs do get hot from time to time when governor is set to performance, but the thing is well ventilated and not too noisy. The Quadro GPU I have is, performance-wise, equivalent to a GTX 1070, so good enough for Cuda too. Works well in Ubuntu as soon as you get rid of the nouveau driver. Also, if you find a 17” laptop too big for you, there are smaller alternatives in the same line. Am no Lenovo fan, but I find this machine offers similar or better performance than that of a gaming laptop, but without all the flashy skully flamboyances. Best wishes, Jon On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 14:09, Domen Zafred <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear CCP4 community, My 8-year-old Dell Inspiron with Ubuntu 10 is waving goodbye and I would ask for some help on this bulletin as buying/setting up a new workstation is common trouble in our community. Has anyone recently set up a laptop for structural work with all the MD, docking, etc. in silico simulations? Is dual boot Linux/Win still a thing, or do you rather run Windows virtually (which VM software)? Are there any known issues with Nvidia Quadro P series GPUs or Intel i5&i7 processors? Has anyone tried Xeon/ECC on a laptop? Does Ubuntu LTS still win the hearts of non-enthusiasts? Any successfully tested laptops (with names and/or listed configuration) are very welcome and any answers that include fruits or hamburger names may be kindly avoided :) Thanks a lot, Domen ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- Dr Jon Agirre Royal Society University Research Fellow York Structural Biology Laboratory / Department of Chemistry University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, York, UK http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/research/ysbl/people/staff/jagirre/ Office: /B/K/065 Phone: +44 (0) 1904 32 8252 Twitter: @alwaysonthejazz ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
