Harry, Andrew, thanks for your advice! Andrew, since you've offered, there's a desk available for you if you'd like to drop in next week :-) Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
On 31 July 2012 12:03, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31 July 2012 11:08, Richard Symonds <[email protected]> > wrote: > > All, > > > > At the request of a volunteer, we've purchased three more laptops for > > events. They're free for any volunteer to take along to events - just > ask us > > and we'll get them sent to you or the event. > > > > These ones are quite powerful, and relatively lightweight - they're the > same > > ones that we used at IBM as company laptops. They are extremely robust - > > I've seen things happen to them that would make a Mac cry. The laptops > > themselves are specced as follows: "Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 15, Intel Core > > i3-380M processor, 15.6" screen, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD". They have a webcam, > > and a card reader, and a dual-layer DVD+-RW drive. > > > > They all come with Windows 7 installed, but it'd be nice if a volunteer > with > > experience in open-source software came in and got them to dual-boot > with a > > suitable version of Linux. Any volunteers? > > I use xubuntu 12.04 on an almost identical laptop (a Thinkpad > L-420/i3), and can report it has no problems at all dual-booting > beyond a slight bit of confusion in the bootloader. (For some reason, > it thinks there are two Linuxes and two Windows 7 setups on the same > machine. Beats me.) If you'd like me to do the same to these, I can > come in sometime this week or next - I'm working from home several > days, but working from the office is more or less the same... > > These are very robust, very pleasant machines to use. Thanks for > getting them, Richard, it'll make future outreach a lot easier to > organise. > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] >
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