On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > Suggestions on an alternative laptop? Keys are the first requirement > > (along with Linux, of course.) And that Dell mentioned here a while ago > > with a non-replaceable battery seems to me to be a bit stupid. But > maybe I > > can be convinced otherwise with suitable arguments. > > Denis, > ... > Now, another suggestion for your consideration. A few years ago I bought > my sister a Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop (15" screen, 64-bit AMD CPU, 2G > RAM, > etc.) She's no longer able to see well enough to use it and returned it to > me since she's sold her house and moving to in independent living > facility. > It has a virus-infected win7 on it and is waiting for me to install > Slackware-14.1 (or, I might just wait until 14.2 is out and install that). > Since I don't need a third laptop sitting here I'd consider selling it. > Might this meet your needs? It ain't the System76, but it's in good > condition. > > Rich Rich, Thanks for the offer, but I think I want something a little more modern. On the 76 I got fond of the performance provided by the ssd. Snappy response to launching applications is habit forming. I have a virtually new 2.5" 128G SSD that my son gave me. It would be nice to put it into service. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
