Laptop Recommendations

[Brian Cluff]

I personally prefer Asus laptops.  You get a better bang for your buck 
and their build quality is top notch.

Have a look at these 2 They seem to fit the requirements you listed:
www.asus.com/us/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/G550JK/
www.asus.com/us/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/G56JK/

I personally run an 240gig SSD for the system and a second spinning 
drive for my data.  That seems to give me the best of both worlds.  I 
don't know if you will find a laptop with space for 2 full size drives
in a smaller/lighter laptop body.  What you would probably want to look 
for is a laptop with an mSATA slot.  It might be hard to find out if an 
particular laptop has an mSATA slot as they don't always list that in 
the specifications.

Brian Cluff

On 08/12/2014 05:25 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Does anyone use an Dell XPS15 or M3800 laptop? I am looking at these two
> models, or perhaps the developer edition with Ubuntu pre-installed. I
> have read that these machines get really hot...to the point of the
> machine crashing. Just wondering about anyone's personal experience.
>
> Also, any recommendations for other brands? I am looking for a core i7,
> at least 8 GB or RAM, and a large SSD to run Debian. Many of the "native
> linux" machines are huge and thick....I liked these two Dell models as
> they have a sleeker design and don't weigh 10 lbs.
>
> Any thoughts on whether to have a small SSD for the OS and a companion
> hard drive for data, or just blow a wad on a huge SSD (1 TB) for both OS
> and data?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
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