I agree with you David. Only thing I would add is it is important to
know how the machine will be used. You are right. I have a 12 year old
Toshiba that has a 1G Celeron and 256mb of ram. I was able to load and
test Qmail Toaster on CentOS 5.
However I would never want to do any Drupal
Hi Mark,
Those two are virtually identical.
Things to consider:
*1) QHD+ doesn't work in Chrome*
*2) You won't have any use for the touch screen*
*3) The M800 comes with two 500G drives (SATA and SSD)*
*4) The M800 is available with a lot of options and customizations that
the *
*XPS15 does not
I forgot to mention in my first post that I don't want the touchscreen and
consider it a waste of money. But I do want the higher horsepower and RAM
for development work and visualization of Windows. I gave up dual booting a
long time ago. I have been a long time Dell user, and have found the
On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 17:25 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
Does anyone use an Dell XPS15 or M3800 laptop? I am looking at these
two models, or perhaps the developer edition with Ubuntu
pre-installed. I have read that these machines get really hot...to the
point of the machine crashing. Just
The world is about to change radically.
Intel just announced a new chip that will begin shipping this fall that
is a dramatic JMoore's law leap over chips to date. Much smaller,
thinner, more powerful, a big performancve jump over Haswell, and it runs
so cool that it will be able to run in
Does anyone use an Dell XPS15 or M3800 laptop? I am looking at these two
models, or perhaps the developer edition with Ubuntu pre-installed. I have
read that these machines get really hot...to the point of the machine
crashing. Just wondering about anyone's personal experience.
Also, any
On 2014-08-12 19:25, Mark Phillips wrote:
Does anyone use an Dell XPS15 or M3800 laptop? I am looking at these
two models, or perhaps the developer edition with Ubuntu
pre-installed. I have read that these machines get really hot...to the
point of the machine crashing. Just wondering about
I’m surprized that people even bother asking questions like this these days,
especially when it comes to Linux.
You can run Linux in a system with an 800 MHz Atom CPU, 256 MB of RAM and 20 GB
HDD and it runs just fine.
There are tiny Media boxes you can get for $50 that have 1.2 GHz ARMs, 4 GB
