New laptop derecommendations

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 18:48:40 UTC 2018


A company I was contract to do work for ordered 15 new ThinkPads.
They have used them for a long time. This last order came with
broadcom chips. Ive never had a ThinkPad with broadcom so I dont
know if it was a special order thing or a pricing thing. We are in the
process of sending them all back.
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:43 PM Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a new laptop.
>
> I am NOT looking for recommendations (but if you have them, by all means
> send them directly to my email address) because I suspect one or other
> variant of Ubuntu will run on pretty much all modern laptops.
>
> What I am looking for is warnings: DON'T use XYZ laptops because...
>
> Knowing what to avoid is probably more useful than knowing what to
> choose from, and I already have a checklist of things it MUST have.
>
> I have been using an ancient but reliable Dell Latitude D810 through
> many versions and distros of Ubuntu. I've been using Dell for many years
> but recently got a loan of an XPS 15 which should have been wonderful
> but which has been a disaster: the keyboard is horrible and the only
> distro which would install on it was Mint 18 — everything else hung at
> the installer's splash screen. Weird for a machine whose smaller brother
> (XPS 13) is actually sold with Linux preinstalled). So Dell is out.
>
> ///Peter
>
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