<div dir="ltr">Hey! sounds like you got a good deal there especially with the SSD included. I think you're going to be pleased at how quick it runs for everyday tasks.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://Bitfixit.org.uk">Bitfixit.org.uk</a> (also in Sheffield, I'm involved) does a voluntary fix-it and advice service, only Saturdays 12-3 at the moment though. There is also another project in Sheffield based at Heeley City Farm <a href="http://www.heeleyfarm.org.uk/">http://www.heeleyfarm.org.uk</a> that does a monthly repair service - not just pc's</div>
<div><br></div><div>Check out the restart project <a href="http://therestartproject.org/">http://therestartproject.org/</a>, they have been going great guns and have events all over, they are as good at doing the whole media (social and old-school) thing as we are at fixing stuff.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A lot of hackspaces are doing fix-it sessions, but no comprehensive resource listing them that I know of - keeping it up to date is the challenge I think.</div><div><br></div><div>love</div><div><br></div>
<div>g</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 July 2014 12:02, Mick - Clearerchannel.org <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mickfuzz@clearerchannel.org" target="_blank">mickfuzz@clearerchannel.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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It comes with Ubuntu 12.04 preloaded, works fine with 14.04,
haven't tried Debian. <br>
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<a href="http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd" target="_blank">http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd</a></blockquote>
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That is pretty posh innit. <br>
<br>
This discussion came at a good time for me as I really needed a new
laptop. My working practices are bad in anycase with having a lot of
applications open at one time and multitasking. <br>
<br>
But the whole thing now where you do development using virtual boxes
just slowed down my £150 Lattitude 630 too much. <br>
<br>
I offered £200 and got a Lenovo ThinkPad T410s Laptop - Core i5
2.67GHz, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD .<br>
I reckon it is going to feel pretty posh in comparison.<br>
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Thanks for the tip on the SSD Gareth, I probably wouldn't have done
that without that tip, people on the internet say it really is a lot
faster. <br>
<br>
I'm wondering if there is a list of places in the UK compiles where
people can walk in and get advice or help on 2nd hand and
reconditioned computers and linux. <br>
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We used to have arcspace in manchester that was inspired by <br>
Access Space in Sheffield - <a href="http://access-space.org/" target="_blank">http://access-space.org/</a><br>
I guess you guys in Bristol wireless still do it -
<a href="http://www.bristolwireless.net/computer-repair/" target="_blank">http://www.bristolwireless.net/computer-repair/</a><br>
Durham - <a href="https://network23.org/dfs3/" target="_blank">https://network23.org/dfs3/</a><br>
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I'd be interested to know of other projects like this in the UK
either full time or pop up. <br>
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It seems like the day of the £0 is here. <br>
I get given loads as 'broken'. Then give it a clean, put new heat
sink material on the chip, put 1G of RAM in and it install any
flavour or linux just fine. I've passed on about 8 of these £0
laptops (£10 if it needs RAM) for friends and projects in the last
year without even trying. It makes you pretty popular for no real
cost. <br>
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Obviously the concept isn't new, but it's nice to be doing it with
laptops instead of having to have shelves full of dusty old towers.
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nice one<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Mick<br>
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