[sclug] Recommendation for a laptop

[Alex Butcher]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Daniel Craigie wrote:

> Hi Oliver,
>
> I have been in a similar position for a couple of weeks but my purchase is not urgent quite yet :-)
>
> I know this may not go down well with everyone here but I?m actually quite taken by an Inspiron 7000 series: http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7537/pd?oc=cn75317&model_id=inspiron-15-7537 <http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7537/pd?oc=cn75317&model_id=inspiron-15-7537>
>
> No luck so far matching spec for the price elsewhere, unless someone can point me in the right direction?

<http://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb&xf=27_4~2379_15.4~11_1000~2377_15.9~12_16384~29_Core+i7-4~82_SSHD~883_GeForce#xf_top>
suggests the Lenovo IdeaPad Y50-70 might be worth comparing. It's ?200-odd
more, but has a GTX 860M GPU with 4GB.

Lenovo are usually pretty good for Linux compatibility, and their build
quality is amongst the best.

> Hope this helps,
> Daniel

Best Regards,
Alex