[Klug-general] Dead HDD, New Laptop?

[Glen Skiner]

Thanks Alan,

I'll have a look into those models and the reseller.  Are they 15"?

Yeah I'm not expecting much in the way of an RMA tbh.

Glen
On 5 May 2015 22:39, "Alan" <alan at hipnosi.org> wrote:

>  I find the Thinkpad models T410-430 X220-230 all fly with almost all HW
> support on most distros.
> In case no-one has someting useful you can get i5's at just a bit more
> than that budget from Tier1online.
> Around 1 in 10 of what we order from them needs RMA within the first year
> - spose thats the nature of second hand laptops.
>
> On 05/05/15 18:33, Glen Skiner wrote:
>
> So today my HDD died, but the laptop is an aging Dell Insprion 6400 and
> it's 32bit proc is hurting my multitasking workflow.
>
> I'm currently eyeing up second hand Lenovo Thinkpad's around the £200
> mark.
>
> As I browsed Amazon & Ebay I thought the klug mail list may be able to
> help.
>
> Basically I'm looking for a 15" screen, 64bit, preferably an i5 but i3 will
> be okay too.
>
> If anybody has a laptop they wouldn't mind shifting that for those specs
> and works well with Linux please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glen
>
>
>
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