<div dir="ltr">I don't know how much CPU power you want to run but my wife's cheap DELL Inspiron with AMD 145 is running latest puppy Linux with all hardware working flawlessly even camera. That's my two cents.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Greg Clifton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com" target="_blank">gccfof5@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Tom,<div><br></div><div>Intermittent problems are always a pain, but I would suspect thermal, memory or power issues. Try cleaning the fins on your CPU heat sink. Laptops have very fine fin pitch that makes them effective dust filters. Most laptops have some sort of access panel that can be removed to gain access to the heat sink. Assuming you can get to the heat sink, brush the accumulated dust off with a toothbrush and you may have your problem solved. Another thing to check is the RAM, remove it and gently run a pencil eraser over the gold contacts to clean them up a bit and re-install. One or both of these procedures may "resurrect" your ailing machine. If not, it may be the DC-DC power supply and if that is failing, you probably need to start looking for a new(er) machine.</div>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Fedora 19 loads fine onto a 2008 Macbook pro. Good use for the older hardware. Case is pretty solid and has a nice screen. You'll need to first load refit, do some partition resizing, keep the Mac partition as it's needed for firmware flashing later. You'll need to use the rpmfusion repos, free and non-free, to load in the nvidia modules for the screen, the nouveau does NOT work on this chipset, and the broadcom-wl wireless driver.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Tom Freeman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net" target="_blank">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I've been running an ASUS my daughter gave me (she couldn't stand Windows 7 and went back to Apple) with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Unfortunately, there seems to be some instability developing (not sure - it isn't very common), and my local pusher of used laptops has closed up the nearby store front. Assuming that I can not get to the bottom of the ASUS's challenges in the next month or so, I will be looking for a laptop.<br>
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My preference from the past is a 2-4 year old ThinkPad. Solid builds with 2-4 years of life left with fine linux compatability in my limited experience. Assuming I find one of those from a dealer I have some history with (or will have with), this question is probably wasted/redundant. However...<br>
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Is there a line of new Laptops in this era of Windows 8 and the fancy security boot scheme which is 1) Linux friendly enough to trust a distracted individual with (me) 2) robust enought to risk loading on the back of scooter transportation?<br>
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