[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu laptop

[James Morrissey]

In the vein of buying a laptop without an OS, The 'going linux' podcast
from last week featured someone talking about how he had bought a t420 and
got the specs up to the point that it beats out a new macbook pro.

http://ia801501.us.archive.org/25/items/glp295/glp295.mp3

It seems you can do it for about $500:
http://www.pcliquidations.com/p24202-lenovo-thinkpad-t420-4236?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=24202&r160164167166161&gclid=Cj0KEQjwipi4BRD7t6zGl6m75IgBEiQAn7CfF1x3S52kwTA04y3NxyHEcO1sN8yU4JG8TzmO89J_aawaAmhq8P8HAQ

Add a solid state drive, extra HDD in the media slot and some RAM and you
should be close to $500. You could keep the price a little lower if you
forewent on some of those specs.

Warning: in the podcast he favours Kali and Elementary, and complains that
Unity is a bit too slow.

j

On 7 April 2016 at 12:49, Wechsel Wirkung <wechselwirkung at mailbox.org>
wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> just buy one laptop without an os maybe. I buyed on notebooksbilliger just
> an acer for 500 euro and
>
> installed just ubuntu by myself and i dont use ubuntu so long. its  much
> cheaper and easy
>
> Jim Price <d1version at hotmail.com> hat am 7. April 2016 um 18:39
> geschrieben:
>
>
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> I'm still using 12.04 - I thought it was supported for 5 years, so
> there's another year to go. Also, I would expect a machine which runs
> 12.04 would manage 16.04 without too much trouble, and might be cheaper
> as it has an older OS on it. There's not much else around at the £200 mark.
>
> Jim
>
> On 07/04/16 17:31, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
> Hi Jim
>
> I wouldn't by that one as one comment say it comes with 12.04 (which is out
> of support) and you can't easily update it because of the driver for the
> Realtek wifi card.
>
> I would go for any other computer that will run 14.04 or 16.04 out of the
> box, whether or not I had to overwrite the Windows on it. You don't save
> much money by going for one with Ubuntu on it.
>
> Tony
>
> On 7 April 2016 at 16:26, Jim Price <d1version at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Does anyone know of a supplier of Ubuntu laptops who would accept
> payment>> by cheque? I'm told eBuyer don't for this one:
> >>
> >> http://www.ebuyer.com/705955-hp-455-quad-core-laptop-l8b56es
> >>
> >> Any alternatives in a similar price range (£200 after trade-in for this
> >> one) would be appreciated too.
> >>
> >> JimP
> >>
> >>
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