[Cialug] Laptops

[David Champion]

One of our Area515 members has a System76 laptop, it's nice but you're
paying a premium for them. From what i've seen they start at about $1200
and go up from there.

My Dell 5530 total cost shipped to me was $617, for an i5 16gb RAM 256gb
nvme (which I replaced with 1TB). As far as I can tell, the unit was
completely new, guessing it was returned or a cancelled order.

I immediately installed Ubuntu Studio 22.04, everything just works out of
the box. I have not installed the fingerprint reader drivers, but from what
I've read that can be done if needed.

-dc


On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 2:05 PM David W. Body <davidbody at bigcreek.com> wrote:

> 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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