[lug] Shopping for a thin & light

[Zan Lynx]

I recently got a 13" Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 12.04 preinstalled. I quite
like it. 1080p screen, 8 GB of RAM, SSD, etc, etc.

Battery is good for about 6 hours unless you start compiling or video
encoding.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Davide Del Vento <
davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been provided Dell Latitude laptops from my employer and have been
> very happy with them. First thing after getting them, I always wiped the
> original OS and installed various flavors of modern Linux (with employer's
> permission, of course). More often than not, it required nothing else than
> waiting for the installation to complete. A few times it required minimal
> driver work, but not much that Google can't figure out in less than 10
> minutes.
>
> I am not giving you the exact model number, because it's not written on
> the machine and I gave up on trying to understand the exact models once I
> realized their names are meaningless and "expire" pretty often. I've always
> found the 12" screen is the best compromise of decent real estate vs
> portability, especially in this (stupid) era of widescreen popularity. And
> the keyboard is normal size, not reduced size (no numeric pad, of course).
> The laptops have the docking station connector on the bottom (which is non
> standard and changed and required a new docking station purchase, awww what
> a nice business model...)
> I use the same machine *both* as carry-around and "desktop replacement"
> (of course in this second role it requires two external 24" monitors). My
> current one is 4-core i5-2520M with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SAMSUNG SSD HD, I
> don't remember the previous one.
>
> If you need only the carry-around option, I'm sure Dell has something
> similar less beefy in term of specs, without the docking station option,
> and of course of lighter price (don't believe you can go lighter than this
> in actual weight)
>
> Cheers,
> Davide
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm considering replacing my Asus Transformer tablet and keyboard dock
>> with a "real" thin & light notebook. I'm finding I don't use it for
>> entertainment much anymore; That is mostly happening on my phone (Galaxy
>> S3) or iPad mini. When I use it for work, I find myself wishing for
>> something a bit more robust. In short, it's become the odd man out in my
>> selection of devices.
>>
>> I'd like something about the same size (half-inch-ish thick, 10" screen),
>> and it must be Linux friendly. I carry it daily so I can respond quickly if
>> something goes Terribly Wrong with one of the systems I'm responsible for.
>> I've found a couple contenders, but I was wondering if the group might have
>> any favorites that I have missed.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> QH
>>
>>
>>
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