[sclug] Recommendation for a laptop

[Olivier Lauret]

Nice!! Thank you every one for all your advice. I will have a look at what
you mentioned. I have indeed much more choice now. Thanks again.

Olivier

On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 23:45:35 Alex Butcher <lug at assursys.co.uk> wrote:

> 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