<div dir="ltr"><div>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. <br><br><a href="http://ia801501.us.archive.org/25/items/glp295/glp295.mp3">http://ia801501.us.archive.org/25/items/glp295/glp295.mp3</a><br><br></div><div>It seems you can do it for about $500: <a href="http://www.pcliquidations.com/p24202-lenovo-thinkpad-t420-4236?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=24202&r160164167166161&gclid=Cj0KEQjwipi4BRD7t6zGl6m75IgBEiQAn7CfF1x3S52kwTA04y3NxyHEcO1sN8yU4JG8TzmO89J_aawaAmhq8P8HAQ">http://www.pcliquidations.com/p24202-lenovo-thinkpad-t420-4236?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=24202&r160164167166161&gclid=Cj0KEQjwipi4BRD7t6zGl6m75IgBEiQAn7CfF1x3S52kwTA04y3NxyHEcO1sN8yU4JG8TzmO89J_aawaAmhq8P8HAQ</a><br><br></div><div>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. <br><br></div><div>Warning: in the podcast he favours Kali and Elementary, and complains that Unity is a bit too slow. <br><br></div><div>j<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 April 2016 at 12:49, Wechsel Wirkung <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wechselwirkung@mailbox.org" target="_blank">wechselwirkung@mailbox.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div><p>Hi Jim,</p><p>just buy one laptop without an os maybe. I buyed on notebooksbilliger just an acer for 500 euro and</p><p>installed just ubuntu by myself and i dont use ubuntu so long. its much cheaper and easy</p><blockquote type="cite"><p>Jim Price <<a href="mailto:d1version@hotmail.com" target="_blank">d1version@hotmail.com</a>> hat am 7. April 2016 um 18:39 geschrieben:</p><div><div class="h5"><br><br><br>Hi Tony,<br><br>I'm still using 12.04 - I thought it was supported for 5 years, so <br>there's another year to go. Also, I would expect a machine which runs <br>12.04 would manage 16.04 without too much trouble, and might be cheaper <br>as it has an older OS on it. There's not much else around at the £200 mark.<br><br>Jim<br><br>On 07/04/16 17:31, Tony Pursell wrote:</div></div><p></p><div><div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite"><p>Hi Jim<br><br>I wouldn't by that one as one comment say it comes with 12.04 (which is out<br>of support) and you can't easily update it because of the driver for the<br>Realtek wifi card.<br><br>I would go for any other computer that will run 14.04 or 16.04 out of the<br>box, whether or not I had to overwrite the Windows on it. You don't save<br>much money by going for one with Ubuntu on it.<br><br>Tony<br><br>On 7 April 2016 at 16:26, Jim Price <<a href="mailto:d1version@hotmail.com" target="_blank">d1version@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</p></blockquote><p>>> Does anyone know of a supplier of Ubuntu laptops who would accept payment>> by cheque? I'm told eBuyer don't for this one:<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.ebuyer.com/705955-hp-455-quad-core-laptop-l8b56es" target="_blank">http://www.ebuyer.com/705955-hp-455-quad-core-laptop-l8b56es</a><br>>><br>>> Any alternatives in a similar price range (£200 after trade-in for this<br>>> one) would be appreciated too.<br>>><br>>> JimP<br>>><br>>><br>>> --<br>>> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>>> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br>>> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br>>></p><blockquote type="cite"><p> <br></p></blockquote><p><br><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a></p></div></div></blockquote></div>
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