On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 4:40 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Any experience with one of these? > > https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/sys/d/hp-pavilion-dm4/6626591009.html > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > I don't know about this exact model but I do have a bit of experience with Linux on other HP Pavilion laptops, from what I have seen they work fine. I mainly use Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora these days. As for another comment in this thread about "enterprise grade", the Pavilion model line is the "home consumer" line, and isn't meant to be "enterprise" grade. If you want enterprise grade you need to get one of the business line, which for HP is EliteBook(1). Same thing with Dell, which I currently have 2 somewhat older Dell laptops both running Mint or Fedora. Dell Inspiron = consumer line, Dell Latitude = business line, XPS = enthusiast high end line (kind of pro-sumer, kind of gamer focused, depending on the model). I have a Latitude 6410 and an XPS 13. Also same idea with Lenovo, and Toshiba, etc. They all have a home consumer line and a business line. The home consumer line tends to have more fancy bells and whistles, more media consumption oriented features. The business line tends to lean towards more sturdy build, not as many features but still enough to go do video conference meetings with the C_O and whatnot. Also business line models usually have a dock connector of some sort. At my current $WORK I deal with Dell Latitudes most of the time, and a few people still have Lenovo Thinkpads. When I have available time I have been known to stick a bootable USB Linux on a few of them to see how well they work, especially the most current models. (1) Current HP Elitebooks: https://store.hp.com/us/en/mlp/laptops/elite-352503--1 Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
