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 <
trent.shipley@gmail.com>
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
---------------------------------------------------
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
(text/plain)