You can find very serviceable older laptops on amazon as refurbished machines for that price. I have had great luck so far. On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:05 PM, trent shipley wrote: > I'm thinking about getting a new laptop. Mine is several years old, and > while it's quite serviceable, it boots really slowly, and it doesn't like > to run a guest Ubuntu OS under Oracle VirtualBox. Also, I foresee more > compiling in my future, even though of late I've been rather truant about > working on my own through my Haskell book. I will say no more about the R > book. I don't game, because it is addicting, and therefore bad for me. > > I tend to try to get as much life as possible out of a computer, because I > am poor. I have heard good things about ASUS. I see more Linux in my > future, but I have to have Windows and since Windows tends to come > preinstalled, I expect it would be my native, host OS. > > I'd like to spend $500, but could (and probably will) stretch to $700. > > What could I expect to get for that, and what would you suggest. > > Trent. > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen