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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 12, 2014 9:19 AM, "Paul Dubuc" <<a href="mailto:work@paul.dubuc.org">work@paul.dubuc.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have a friend who lives in Holland. He's going to be visiting Columbus in a<br>
few weeks and would like to buy a new laptop while he's here. I've never<br>
installed Ubuntu on a laptop so I'm not sure what to recommend. I've added<br>
his specs below. Any suggestions for a good make and model and a local source?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Paul Dubuc<br>
<br>
> I am contemplating to buy a new laptop mainly for programming/work use with<br>
> the following specifications:<br>
><br>
> Size: medium-large sized (no mini-notebook size) RAM: 4GB (does not need to<br>
> be more and preferably not lower than that) Processor: Dual-core of 2.5G+<br>
> (could be more but not necessary, depends on if it does not affect the<br>
> price too much) Harddisk space: 250GB+ (preferably more, but also depends<br>
> on the price)<br>
><br>
> For the OS I would like to have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS pre-installed. I'm not<br>
> sure if there much laptops with pre-installed linux versions though,<br>
> probably you'll need a computer-specific store for that. If that can't be<br>
> found then windows 8 is also ok, then I will install Ubuntu next to it<br>
> myself.<br>
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