<p dir="ltr">Look for a Lenovo Thinkpad W520. Do NOT get the 530 or the 510 even though the 510 will work. It's crap compared to the 520. The 530 is brain dead and may be the first one designed by Lenovi. <br>
The 520 is a honking desktop replacement with dual graphics each with dedicated ram. Intel and an nvidia.<br>
Be prepared to drop a was on it. They started at $2600 new. The 510/530 started at $1500.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 17, 2014 9:56 PM, "Ed Cashin" <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi.<div><br></div><div>Does anyone know of an online place where I can build a used laptop and select Ubuntu as the pre-installed O.S.?</div><div><br></div><div>There's thinkpenguin, which is pretty much exactly what I want, but it's for new systems and the selection is limited.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is the kind of system I have in mind, but it's hard to find all this in a used/refurbished state. It's pretty hit or miss, mostly miss, on eBay.</div><div><br></div><div> Intel i7 CPU</div>
<div> 16 GB RAM</div><div> 500 GB SSD</div><div> 14" screen<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ideally the graphics card would be programmable using Intel's GPU libraries, but I cannot remember whether their libraries are Linux-compatible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"> Ed Cashin <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net" target="_blank">ecashin@noserose.net</a>></div>
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