Linux laptop: recommendations?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manI upgraded coronium, the laptop I got, factory-reconditioned, for when I went to the Conservative Yeshiva in 2007, to the latest version of Red Hat Fedora Linux a couple of months ago, and it's struggling with it. Actually, it's managing fine, just slowly, with most things, but when I tried calling the Skype call testing service I got "We-e-el-co-o-me to-o-o the-e-e Sky-y-y-pe Ca-a-a-all"... you get the picture. In addition the battery rolled over and died at the end of July, and the CMOS battery is also on its last legs. I think, rather than try and replace these and continue putting up with a machine trying to run an OS designed for a much more modern machine, it's time to get a new laptop.
Last time, I got a cheap, factory reconditioned model because I was worried about the nickability of a shiny new laptop, but on reflection, I think I shouldn't have worried: I never really left coronium anywhere it could have been nicked; I always took it with me. So this time I want to get somethingmore powerful, to future-proof myself so I don't need to get another one for, shall we say, the remainder of the decade.
Beyond that requirement, I'm not really looking for speed or power: I don't intend to play games on it, for instance. My only other requirement is that I get a model on which Linux is known to work. Now, I could go online and be presented with huge lists of laptops, but I thought before I start floundering around, I should see if anyone here has any recommendations.
So, do you?
Last time, I got a cheap, factory reconditioned model because I was worried about the nickability of a shiny new laptop, but on reflection, I think I shouldn't have worried: I never really left coronium anywhere it could have been nicked; I always took it with me. So this time I want to get somethingmore powerful, to future-proof myself so I don't need to get another one for, shall we say, the remainder of the decade.
Beyond that requirement, I'm not really looking for speed or power: I don't intend to play games on it, for instance. My only other requirement is that I get a model on which Linux is known to work. Now, I could go online and be presented with huge lists of laptops, but I thought before I start floundering around, I should see if anyone here has any recommendations.
So, do you?
