http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Touch-i7-3667U-8GB-256G... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-14-1600-900-Core-i5-342... Personally I prefer smaller lighter laptops, and wouldn't look at a 15" again. I plug in to a large monitor at home. The laptop above looks like the best of all worlds though, except perhaps price. What's your budget? A smaller screen is good for battery life too though. I use a 2.5 year old Lenovo X220, which still stacks up pretty well. Not quite as light as the above, but much better battery life, and you can pick one up for about $400 on ebay. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X220-Intel-Core-i7-2-7-GHz-8GB-RA... Andrew On 22/12/13 23:00, Lauchlin Wilkinson wrote:
Something like the LENOVO B590 or E540 might be a good place to start looking. I still find that most Lenovo laptops are reasonably well built, cheap, have good support and will run Ubuntu straight out of the box. Maxed out RAM and an after market SSD (if you are comfortable doing the upgrade yourself) would also be on my shopping list.
- Lauchlin
On 22 December 2013 22:48, Bianca Gibson <bianca.rachel.gibson@gmail.com <mailto:bianca.rachel.gibson@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi everyone, My brother is looking for a new laptop. He uses it for generally pretty basic stuff - multimedia playback, web browsing, a bit of gimp.
His criteria is: - Ideally 15" screen, 14" would be acceptable - 2.5kg or lower - ideally battery lasting through a day at uni - running ubuntu
Please reply all to include him in the discussion.
Cheers, Bianca
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