Cheap Dell Laptops

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 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 <kevin at fries-biro.com>
> 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, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> 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, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
>> 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]
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