[Cialug] Laptops

[David W. Body]

Ars Technica has this review today:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/review-system76-pangolin-is-a-solid-15-inch-slab-of-linux-with-a-few-quirks/

System76 is a great company to do business with.

--David

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 9:53 AM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently got a Dell Latitude 5530 from their refurb outlet for about 50%
> of the retail price. I got on chat with a rep and he gave me an additional
> $100 off the listed price without prompting. The 5530 is the bigger 15"
> screen, but has 2 m.2 nvme slots if you want to have a lot of storage. I
> removed the stock 250gb drive and put in a 1TB drive, which cost about that
> $100 amount.
>
> I like the laptop a lot. The smaller 14" model is very similar but only has
> 1 nvme slot, which shouldn't be a problem for most people.
>
> Have had several Dell and Lenovo laptops (one of my favorites was the
> Thinkpad X230). As long as you stick with the business line, and not the
> retail models they're both pretty good.
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 9:21 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:08 AM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm exactly the opposite, I've fewer problems with Dell than Lenovo and
> > > HP.   As far as problems go starting with the least number of problems,
> > > it's Dell, Lenovo and HP in that order.
> >
> >
> > I've heard other people say that as well, so there must be something to
> it.
> >
> > But for myself, like I said, I've never had a problem with a Lenovo and
> > haven't heard of any persistent problems that co-workers had. My current
> > job uses Dell, though, and I had problems from the get go, enough that
> they
> > eventually replaced my laptop. Three others on my team have nothing but
> > problems. Crashes when using Teams, random restarts overnight, halts boot
> > in UEFI, etc, etc, etc. Thank goodness my replacement doesn't have those
> > problems.
> >
> > Of course, part of the problem is likely that IT at this job can't settle
> > on a single model. Every single one of us has a different model Dell.
> >
> > --
> > Todd
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