My Thinkpad A31p has served me well as a portable workstation. I have install AntiX Linux (lightweight distro) which works, but is too slow. Not the fault of the distro, but the Thinkpad is limited by amount of ram that can be used. Looking to replace with a current or used workstation grade laptop.
Brock
On 11/22/2014 12:00 PM, roundtable-request@muug.mb.ca wrote:
Message: 3 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:05:37 -0600 From: Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net To: Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.mb.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] ThinkPad on last legs Message-ID: 546FD351.7060606@athompso.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 14-11-21 05:54 PM, Brock Wolfe wrote:
I am looking for any recommendations for a Laptop to run Linux. My Thinkpad is on its last legs. Brock
Depends on what you want to do with the system. Thinkpads (mostly W, T and X series) are always good choices. L, S and Edge series should be OK nowadays, too. Dell Latitude and Precision models are good Thinkpad substitutes as a rule. The more "business"-oriented the laptop, the better the build quality (usually), and although it'll cost more, much more likely to work out of the box with Linux without any fiddling or unsupported components.
If you're using Ubuntu or Arch, it appears that almost anything will work acceptably well nowadays.
Used business-class or workstation-class laptops can be a better choice than a brand-new consumer-grade laptop.
Also, Thinkpads can last a very long time - what do you think is wrong with your current laptop?
-- -Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net
On 14-11-22 12:29 PM, Brock Wolfe wrote:
My Thinkpad A31p has served me well as a portable workstation. I have install AntiX Linux (lightweight distro) which works, but is too slow. Not the fault of the distro, but the Thinkpad is limited by amount of ram that can be used. Looking to replace with a current or used workstation grade laptop.
Yeah, OK, that's getting a little slow for modern use, and 1GB max is a bit low. If you want something similar but updated, you'll be looking at the Thinkpad W series or the Dell Precision series. Obviously there are others out there, those are the two I'm familiar with. Worth mentioning is the Apple Macbook Pro, too... Apple pricing isn't as far out to lunch as it used to be, at least for now.
(*cough* You could also Buy Canadian and get a Eurocom Panther 5SE... who doesn't want a 12-core Xeon laptop, or 4-way SLI notebooks???)
If you have a way to get it across the border yourself, consider www.dellauction.com; otherwise check dellrefurbished.ca regularly, as their stock changes. (overstock.com now ships to canada, FYI...)
Huh - Google just found this, which you could pick up *locally*: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX51107
The big determinant of price is how much memory you want in it. As long as you're happy with only 8GB, there's quite a selection of both new and used to choose from. If you think you want >8GB, you'll pretty much have to buy brand-new.
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