One possibility I always encourage people to check out is off-lease Dell laptops. You can get a business-grade (Latitude, IIRC) refurb unit *with* a 2-year replacement warranty (optional, only about $70-80) for a few hundred dollars. And their business lines almost always run Linux 100% OK. They're just not current-gen at that speed. But contrast to a netbook with tiny screen, cramped kbd, 1yr wnty, slow HD, slow CPU... for similar price. See http://www.dfsdirect.ca/. -Adam
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike@gmail.com Sender: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:59:00 To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca Reply-To: Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.mb.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Question about Laptops
On 10-12-24 04:24 PM, Trevor Cordes wrote:
On 2010-12-24 Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Merry Christmas and happy holidays (what ever works for you - you never know). ;-)
My father had decided to look at a laptop. He wants to put his family tree program on it and take it for a trip out East this spring. He has seen me running Linux on my desktop for years and thinks he would like to give it a try on the laptop. Even in a dual-boot configuration. Being cheap (a typical Winnipegger) he is only willing to spend $200 -$300 for the machine. There are some
Most in that range will be netbooks. Even cheapo 4-yo technology notebooks are still around $400-500+ on sale. Make sure he knows the difference as netbooks can be disappointing if that's not what you really want.
I saw three machines in that price range (retail). One was a netbook. It never occurred to me to think about this until you mentioned it, His primary thing is the family tree stuff and e-mail.
The question is what are some good brands and locations to scope out?
Buy today's Free Press and go flyer frolicking! Surely there will be some crazy BD blowouts.
Got a bunch of flyers delivered this week. Prices range from $175 up to over $1,000. Quite a spread.
As for brands, the entire world except for Acer, that's my humble opinion based on selling computers for 13 years!
A couple of the cheaper ones were Acers. I'll have to take a second look. It seems as though quite a few people using Toshibas like them. I think my father might be happy with an Intel Mac laptop but the bottom end for refurbished units is $400. Add another $200 in upgrades to make them useful. That's more than he wants to spend.
Later Mike
P.S. A link from the supervisor at the CLL... Everyone WILL enjoy this. It is mandatory. ;-)
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