[sclug] Recommendation for a laptop

[Nigel Pond]

Great! I've just upgraded to Fedora 21 and my trackpad still doesn't
work ... I did pass my RHCSA exam tho - happy days :)

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays All!

On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 19:54 +0000, Olivier Lauret wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I finally bought my laptop with PCSpecialist.co.uk. Very impressed by the
> configuration and the service. All what I went for worked out of the box.
> Only issue is that the screen isn't the best for the black colors. I had
> some leakage. They "repaired" it very quickly, it is better, but it is not
> the best.
> 
> I've used it for a bit now and it is impressively fast with my mSATA SSD
> drive : less that 20 seconds to boot up and less than 3 to stop.
> 
> Thanks again all for your great advice.
> Regards,
> Olivier
> 
> On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 12:45:49 PM Olivier Lauret <
> olivier.lauret at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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/inspi
> >> ron-15-7537/pd?oc=cn75317&model_id=inspiron-15-7537 <
> >> http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7537/pd?oc=cn75317&mod
> >> el_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_1000~23
> >> 77_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
> >
> >