[ale] Buying advice for Laptop ?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Stick with Dell or HP.  Toshiba, Samsung, and Sony tend to not make drivers available for later versions of Windows (yuck!) if that is the route you are going.  Also, Dell and HP have good support, and there are more parts available on EBay for them later.
Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama


From: <ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>> on behalf of Narahari 'n' Savitha
Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 8:19 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: [ale] Buying advice for Laptop ?

Friends:

I am in the market for a laptop.  I am trying to decide between
celeron(may be ?)

i3
i5
i7

Brands (Lenovo, ASUS, Toshiba Acer, HP) ?
RAM 8GB good enough or 16GB ?
SSD a must or not really ?
if HDD 5400rpm vs 7200 rpm makes diff ?
Screen 15.6 inch screen.

Has to run Windows (8.1 is what I get I guess )

Uses:  VPN to Mrs. office.  Daughters projects with MS office.

-N
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