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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/07/14 10:52, yossarian 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 moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd">http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd</a></blockquote>
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That is pretty posh innit. <br>
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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>
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But the whole thing now where you do development using virtual boxes
just slowed down my £150 Lattitude 630 too much. <br>
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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>
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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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://access-space.org/">http://access-space.org/</a><br>
I guess you guys in Bristol wireless still do it -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bristolwireless.net/computer-repair/">http://www.bristolwireless.net/computer-repair/</a><br>
Durham - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://network23.org/dfs3/">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<br>
Mick<br>
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