I sell laptops. Refurbished mainly, but some new.
If you wanted to buy one with whatever flavour of LInux I would happily
install it pre-purchase.
Otherwise if you would like to buy one with no system, I would install it
for you, and probably show you. =o)
Hope this helps
Not putting my business
Thanks to all. Plenty of advice there, not all consistent,
but it's good to have a range of views!
I will investigate entroware, minifree and PC Specialist. I'm
not really sure exactly what I want as yet - something to act
as a backup for a desktop system and that I can take with me
when away
On Friday 04 November 2016 16:24:31 Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote:
> > Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS
> > fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
>
> Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still
On 2016-11-04 12:24, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote:
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote:
Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS
fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still mostly pretty good with
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote:
> Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS
> fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still mostly pretty good with Linux, at least
when I was looking last year. Those
I've been very pleased with my PC Specialist laptop.
For other laptop (and other hardware) Novatech in Portsmouth has been very
useful as you can purchase PCs and laptops without preinstalled Windows,
so you don't have to pay for an OS that you immediately replace with
another.
Andy
> +1 from
+1 from me for PC Specialist; I bought both a laptop (pre-UEFI) and a
desktop (UEFI) PC from them, and I had no problem at all installing
Linux (Mint) on them. They also give you the capability to tailor the
basic specification (choice of CPU, RAM, HDD/SSD, optical drive, ...)
according to
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <
hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> What is the best way to acquire a laptop running Linux these
> days?
My friend has had great success with https://minifree.org/ -- especially if
you're interested in the freedom (or
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 03 at 05:58, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
> I understand that people do have laptops running Linux, so how is
> it done? I would be grateful for any advice.
I've has a couple of ancient laptops running linux in my time and
my current EEE-PC N900 is coming to the end of
On 3 November 2016 at 17:58, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <
hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> What is the best way to acquire a laptop running Linux these
> days? Various web searches haven't helped me much. Some sites say
> it's better to get one running Windows, then install Linux.
>
On Thursday 03 Nov 2016 17:58:26 Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
> What is the best way to acquire a laptop running Linux these
> days? Various web searches haven't helped me much.
https://www.entroware.com/store/laptops
I haven't used them, but they've been mentioned on the Ubuntu Podcast
System76 do a range of laptops with Ubuntu; they're US based, but ship
internationally:
https://system76.com/laptops
Dell sell a few laptops with Ubuntu installed. The UK site usually seems
to say they're unavailable, but maybe a phone call would have better
results. The XPS 13 in particular is a
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:58:26 + (UTC), Peter Alefounder via Hampshire
wrote:
>What is the best way to acquire a laptop running Linux these
>days? Various web searches haven't helped me much. Some sites say
>it's better to get one running Windows, then install Linux.
>However, I get the
I used Jamies Computers. I had to do the install, but they tested my
Latitude laptop with a live CD to make sure it all worked. These are
reconditioned machines, but they upgraded the RAM and the hard-drive,
and the advantage of having a slightly older machine is the hardware is
more likely
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