Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-31 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/04/2013 04:14 PM, Tim Evans wrote: Looking to move up from my ThinkPad T61p (Fedora 19) to something more current. Looks like the T530 might be an option, as might be the Dell Latitude E6350. Both are priced in the same ballpark. Comments welcome, as well as other suggestions. Thanks.

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-07 Thread Xinyun Zhou
On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 15:35 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:19:50PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > I've got a W530 and it works very well with Fedora, although I haven't > > gotten the "optimus" video card switching technology working. The Intel > > video works great, an

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-05 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Rolf Turner : On 10/06/13 06:58, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:05:14PM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: ...snip... P. S. Based on my experience, ***don't*** buy a Toshiba! Want to expand on that? My stepdaughter has a satellite that I'm thinking of taking

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/05/2013 06:53 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Well, I just had endless frustration in respect of the WiFi interface which was vital to me. After a bit of struggle I found an email address that purported to be for Linux support for Toshiba machines. I got all excited and sent email to that address,

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-05 Thread Rolf Turner
On 10/06/13 06:58, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:05:14PM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: ...snip... P. S. Based on my experience, ***don't*** buy a Toshiba! Want to expand on that? My stepdaughter has a satellite that I'm thinking of taking over and installing on

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:19:50PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > I've got a W530 and it works very well with Fedora, although I haven't > gotten the "optimus" video card switching technology working. The Intel > video works great, and the Noveau driver works with the Nvidia card giving > better pe

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:05:14PM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: ...snip... > P. S. Based on my experience, ***don't*** buy a Toshiba! Want to expand on that? My stepdaughter has a satellite that I'm thinking of taking over and installing one of the linux distros. -- Bob Holtzman Yo

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-04 Thread Rolf Turner
On 10/05/13 09:14, Tim Evans wrote: Looking to move up from my ThinkPad T61p (Fedora 19) to something more current. Looks like the T530 might be an option, as might be the Dell Latitude E6350. Both are priced in the same ballpark. Comments welcome, as well as other suggestions. Thanks. Yo

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-04 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Tim Evans wrote: Looking to move up from my ThinkPad T61p (Fedora 19) to something more current. Looks like the T530 might be an option, as might be the Dell Latitude E6350. Both are priced in the same ballpark. Comments welcome, as well as other suggestions. Thanks.

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-04 Thread Carlos "casep" Sepulveda
On 4 October 2013 17:14, Tim Evans wrote: > Looking to move up from my ThinkPad T61p (Fedora 19) to something more > current. Looks like the T530 might be an option, as might be the Dell > Latitude E6350. Both are priced in the same ballpark. Comments welcome, as > well as other suggestions. T

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:14:19PM -0400, Tim Evans wrote: > Looking to move up from my ThinkPad T61p (Fedora 19) to something > more current. Looks like the T530 might be an option, as might be > the Dell Latitude E6350. Both are priced in the same ballpark. > Comments welcome, as well as other

OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-04 Thread Tim Evans
Looking to move up from my ThinkPad T61p (Fedora 19) to something more current. Looks like the T530 might be an option, as might be the Dell Latitude E6350. Both are priced in the same ballpark. Comments welcome, as well as other suggestions. Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5