From my experience Dell is Linux friendly. I'd double check if it will run Linux though. I think the new HP's will not. Last year when I bought a new Dell workstation. After telling them I was going to install Linux, Dell sent me a Win 8 disk so I could go back to Win if I wanted to. And the disk was free. On 2014-07-18 11:38, Jim March wrote: > You should be able to get Linux running on that thing.  You may be > forced to stick with a major distro that knows how to deal with the > new BIOS-ish situation, as opposed to something extremely > "hipster"...but you're not stuck with Win8.x. > > Jim > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Kevin Fries > wrote: > >> Yea but it runs Windows 8, the worst OS since ME. >> >> The Chrome book will save you in usability feature, plus not having >> to buy an office siite, and an antivirus, etc. >> >> I'd go with the chromebook. >> >> But that's me. >> >> Kevin >> >> On Jul 18, 2014 11:51 AM, wrote: >> >> Thanks for your feedback!!  The price point is very good!!  If >> the performance is there then it would be a steal. >> >> On 2014-07-18 10:09, Jim March wrote: >> If we check the CPU specs: >> >> > http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz >> [1] >> [3] >> >> ...we see that surpprisingly, it HAS the Intel "VTx" hardware >> virtualization >> extension.  That means getting a virtual machine running on it for >> at >> least basic stuff will work at reasonable speeds. >> >> If we got to the CPUBench site we see it has a "performance score" >> of >> just under 1,000 which...is...bad-ish but not terrible like some of >> the Atom crap. >> >> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html [2] [4] >> >> Upshot: you could do real work with that puppy, with a modern Linux >> distro and even light virtualization (running a copy of WinXP or >> another distro as a VM on it). >> >> Jim >> >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, >> wrote: >> >> Better than a Chromebook? >> >> > http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop >> [3] >> [1] >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [4] [2] >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] >> > http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop >> [3] >> [2] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [4] >> [3] >> > http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz >> [1] >> [4] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html [2] >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [4] > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [4] > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [4] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] > http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz > [2] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html > [3] > http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop > [4] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss