Buying a New Laptop

[Jim Herrmann]

That's great that they are doing that, but their Linux laptop offerings are
lame.  They offer a 10" and a 13".  Woah.  Don't get carried away with the
option there.  And it's Ubuntu 9.10.  Great.  18 month old release that's
not even an LTS release, so it's unsupported out of the box.  1GB of RAM,
can't increase it.

And they wonder why no one buys them.  Sheesh.

I appreciate that you've had good luck with them, and I'm sure their Windoze
machines are just fine.  Just no point in buying a Linux laptop from them.

Thanks,
Jim

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Glenn Robuck <techravingmad at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&l=en&cs=19
>
> <http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&l=en&cs=19>That's
> the Dell Ubuntu laptops.
>
> We use Dells at work and we don't have any issues with 3rd party plugs.
>  Even if there was a problem a replacement power brick ranges from $50-$120.
>  We've used Dells for over 4 years and we've never had a power brick go bad.
>  We've had users break them, but never go bad.
>
> I use Dell every day and recommend them especially since the hardware is
> fully supported.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Jim Herrmann <kclug at itdepends.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm buying a new laptop really soon.  What do the members of KCLUG
>> recommend for a Linux only laptop.  Pre-installed or no OS is fine with me,
>> I just don't want to pay for something I'm never going to use.  I'm willing
>> to spend in the neighborhood of a grand, give or take a few hundred.  So, I
>> want a fairly nice machine, light weight for travel, but durable and
>> reliable.  And, it goes without saying, Linux friendly.  You guys are super
>> resourceful, so I wanted to tap into the vast knowledge base on this list.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your input.
>>
>> Jim Herrmann
>>
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