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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20171103/7790dfcb/attachment-0005.sig>