[GLLUG] Laptop recommendations?

[Richard Houser]

I personally stick with the professional class laptops based on msi, asus,
sager, etc.  It's a price premium, but money well spent if you spend a
large amount of time on the machine or need a lot of horsepower.  Check out
sites like powernotebooks.com, but read up on Optimus first.  The next
closest tier is probably something like the Lenovo lines.  I need a real
notebook, so can't speak much about the ultralights.
On Feb 6, 2013 1:59 PM, "Clay Dowling" <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:

> On 02/06/2013 01:56 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>
>> My work laptop is an ultrabook, a Dell XPS-13, running Fedora 18
>> (x86_64).  There's finally a kernel in testing that'll support the
>> multitouch trackpad, otherwise the system runs fine.  It's quite
>> light, has a 256G SSD in it, integrated wireless and bluetooth.  The
>> CPU is a Core i7-2637M, dual-core.  Display is 1366x768 (blah) but
>> looks good.
>>
>> Ubuntu had support for it earlier, since they worked directly with
>> Dell and the parts vendors to get drivers working.  The XPS-13 is the
>> Linux "Developer Edition"
>> (http://content.dell.com/us/**en/gen/d/campaigns/xps-linux-**laptop<http://content.dell.com/us/en/gen/d/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop>
>> ).
>>
>> I like it.  A lot of people just assume it's a MacBook Air, due to the
>> way it looks.  It's nice to be able to buy a laptop and not pay the
>> "Microsoft tax", although I suspect that you're not paying any less
>> than the people buying it with MS preinstalled.
>>
>>  You're paying slightly more, or were when it first came out.  I
> seriously considered it, because it was announced just slightly before I
> purchased the Latitude.  And it wasn't my money, so I didn't care about the
> extra $50, which still put it well below my budget.
>
> One thing to consider is how much memory the motherboard can handle.  I
> bought my laptop because it could take 16GB of RAM.  That might seem
> obscenely huge, but at times I will need to run several rather greedy
> virtual machines on it.
>
> Clay
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