I've had success on "older" model Lenovos.....(T-410 / T-420 / T-430) but anything beyond those seems to have some issue or another. I was even able to swap the standard drive to an SD (250GB) on a T-430 and it's running g like a champ. A lot of the newer stuff is OK as long as you don't have any boutique drivers for video network or sound. YMMV. On Sep 29, 2016 9:18 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 9/29/2016 5:55 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
It seems optical drives are gone. Do I boot the iso from USB or what's the procedure now?
yup, put iso on USB, go to town.
Generally seeking new laptop advice. If Lenovo is not good is anyone using Toshiba?
I have not much cared for Lenovo since IBM sold out to them. I've been generally quite happy with business grade ('Latitude') Dell laptops... my wife's got an XPS15 (running Windows) thats very nice, gorgeous IPS 1920x1080 screen, very slim, nicely made, and her new work laptop is a Latitude 5500-something thats also a really nice super-slim thing, has monster battery life, and all the latest USB C and so forth, but it too is running Windows 7 as thats what she needs for her techwriter job (Adobe Framemaker on Linux is very poorly supported).
-- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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