On 11/02/2017 01:00 PM, Wells, Roger K. wrote:
On 11/02/2017 01:42 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
I'm looking to replace my (old, creaky) netbook (Acer Aspire One D255e, a screaming dual core 1.6 GHz Atom, and a whole 2 gigs of RAM) with something faster but not too large. Sometimes (usually) the netbook is painfully slow.
Something like a hi-res 14 (or 15) inch screen (full HD), minimum of 4 gigs RAM, HD of a half terabyte or bigger.
I'd like to not have to go over 600-700 dollars, so I know my choices are somewhat limited if I want to avoid the 400-500 dollar windows 10 junk^H^H^H^Hsystems from BJs, etc.
Something with a quad-core processor, and all hardware works with C7.
I've glanced at Lenovo Thinkpads on amazon where there are several "factory refurbished" ones with similar specs to what I mention above in the $500-700 range, but I don't know if they're any good or not
I'm open to suggestions from any/all of you!
thanks in advance!
Fred
I have been running Linux, mostly Redhat flavors, for a long time mostly on Thinkpads but some other IBM/Lenovo laptops for a long time. Never have had a problem. Currently running Fedora 26 on a X260, two with Centos 7.4, X200 & X220, all used for software development. HTH
Red Hat provides Lenovo Thinkpad machines to employees, so almost everything for RHEL (and therefore CentOS) works with those. Also the X1 Carbon.