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1. Re: Advice on new laptop (Amias Channer)


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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:44:31 +0100
From: Amias Channer <me@amias.net>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Advice on new laptop
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Hello Luggers,

I recently bought myself a rather shiney Dell inspiron 7737 and am very
happy with it , its really well built and feels as solid and well built as
a my wifes macbook pro

Its great , once i replaced the crappy 5400 rpm hd with an SSD its
ludicrously fast (i7 , nvidia 750 , 8gb ram , 5ghz wifi)

Yes i paid the windows tax but i wanted a 17inch laptop and the one the
dell do with linux is smaller.

It works perfectly with optimus and plays steam games beautifully ,
everything works out of the box with ubuntu 14.04 apart from the bluetooth
and the occasional wifi glitch on resume but given that it boots ubuntu in
less than 5 seconds rebooting isn't a pain.

It has a clickpad which took some getting used to but is fine , for serious
work i plug in a mouse because any laptop pointing system hurts my wrists.

Cheers
Amias




On 9 September 2014 21:15, John Horne <john.horne@plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 14:42 +0100, john ffitch wrote:
> > I have had four laptops, three IBM Thinkpads and one Lenovo Thinkpad
> > (this machine). The first and third machines still run and are solid
> > (but who wants a IBM 560 with Windows95, no USB, no network, no
> > optical drive?; the X42 runs, slowly with occasional disk glitches and
> > an odd-format disk; other one belonged to the University and was
> > stolen). However this 5yr old X200s is breaking up -- keyboard is
> > suspect with sdyl keys at least (*), and middle button is broken. I was
> > thinking it might be time to replace.
> >
> > However the reliability of Lenovo is dubious in my experience, and
> > looking at their latest models they have messed up the mouse buttons and
> > the keyboard.
> >
> > So... I have been looking elsewhere. My requirements are
> > light
> > reasonable disk/mass device (~~250Gb) -- SSD would be nice for battery
> > battery life
> > Must run Linux, preferably 64bit processor.
> > Nibble mouse (I just cannot use the glide pad thing)
> >
> I bought a Lenovo L440 Thinkpad earlier this year. Although I have used
> Toshiba and Samsung's at work, I am quite happy with the Lenovo.
>
> It was expensive, and I basically went for the top of range - 16GB of
> memory, HD+(?) screen, centrino wireless, 128GB SSD, Intel i5 (4 core)
> CPU etc. I have now replaced the SSD with an Intel 240GB self-encrypting
> (FDE) SSD - it works great.
>
> In terms of construction, I have had no problems and it seems to be
> reliably built. Replacing the SSD drive was trivial.
>
> It ran Linux (Fedora 20) 64-bit out of the box.
>
> The keyboard does contain a nipple. It works fine in moving the cursor,
> but it has no actual 'click' function. You have to use the touchpad for
> that.
>
> Cons:
> Yes, the ultranav (the glide pad thing) is awkward to use until you get
> used to it. Also it took a little setting up. I use KDE for the desktop,
> and the settings in there were enough to make the ultrapad usable.
> The capslock key has no warning LED when the key has been pushed.
> Trivial I know, but I (and many others) really fail to understand why
> Lenovo did this. They have LEDs on some of the other keys, so why not on
> capslock where it is actually useful! (I got round it by setting up a
> KDE notfication.)
> Ironically (because I previously really was not interested in this) a
> backlit-keyboard might be nice. This model doesn't come with that
> option, but I have occasionally found myself working further into
> darkness(!) and a backlight would have been nice. The screen brightness
> controls work fine.
>
>
>
>
>
> John.
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------
> John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287
> Plymouth University, UK
>
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