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Re: Laptop recommendation

From	Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Laptop recommendation
Date	2018-07-06 00:50 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 09:11:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 12:39:18PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 03:38:17PM +0200, Jonas Hedman wrote:
> > > Hello I hope that is not OT for this list.
> > > 
> > > Basically I'm on the hunt for a newish laptop on which I naturally want
> > > to run Debian. I'm a student and I spend most of my daily outandabout 
> > > computer time reading pdfs, writing LaTeX docs, surfing and doing some 
> > > light coding, no heavy duty stuff in other words. I use i3vm and I
> > > generally like to keep things as light and minimal as feasibly possible.
> > > 
> > > I really value light weight and good battery life and my upper bound on prize
> > > is somewhere around 875$ (~7K SEK). Memory should be greater than or
> > > equal to 2GB and an sdd would be nice.
> > > 
> > > I know very little about hardware and I'm not quite sure where or how to 
> > > start looking. I though the Lenovo Thinkpad 13 looked promising but it's a bit 
> > > over my price target. Could chromeboosk be something to look into? I
> > > know the older thinkpads has good debian support but if I remember
> > > correctly they are also very heavy.
> > 
> > System76 (www.system76.com) makes laptops that run Ubuntu; it
> > has generally been easy to retrofit Debian on them. They have 
> > several models that fit in your price range including more RAM
> > and an SSD.
> 
> +1
> 
> Even "multimedia" keys and other things they generally ensure are
> supported.


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Re: Laptop recommendation Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-06 00:50 +0200
  Re: Laptop recommendation Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2018-07-06 03:20 +0200
  Re: Laptop recommendation Ben Oliver <ben@bfoliver.com> - 2018-07-06 08:00 +0200
    Re: Laptop recommendation Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-06 16:50 +0200
      Re: Laptop recommendation Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-07 05:20 +0200
      Re: Laptop recommendation Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-07-07 14:30 +0200

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