current laptop recommendations

[Ian Malone]

On 9 January 2015 at 13:54, Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:43:58 +0000 Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux
>> compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking
>> for anything superspecced to replaced it, just annoyances like reduced
>> battery life and the wifi switch playing up are starting to build up
>> (plus people have poked the screen one too many times). It's a 13.3"
>> screen with 100GB hard drive and I guess I'd be hoping to find
>> something similar with a maximum budget of about £500.
>>

> I like my Dell XPS 13 (2.9 lbs) with 13.3" and 1920x1080 resolution and it actually came with Ubuntu (which I promptly stripped for Fedora) which also meant that I did not have to pay the Windoze tax.
>

Yes, they look really nice! Was browsing them yesterday. Unfortunately
a bit over budget as not my main computer and wont be getting loads of
use.

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