On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:41:47PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Before Christmas I bought myself a new Lenovo laptop thinking I'd get Ubuntu running on it fine, but no; graphics issues, touchpad issues, etc and it's been running Windows 10 ever since.
So as not to make the same mistake again, on a budget of about £450 what is a good laptop for Linux? Happy to look at 2nd-hand or refurbs,
Must haves: It's for my wife so it needs a numeric keypad (she's a bookkeeper). A side effect of that means 15"+. Needs to run virtual machines (Sage only runs on Windows...). Weight is a factor, I think certainly <2kg. It'll end up with SSD either because it came with one or I installed it (happy either way, probably prefer to install it myself). Decent RAM - I'd have thought 16GB (or at least the scope to increase it later).
Can claim the VAT back so budget is higher with a VAT invoice than without.
I was going to say Lenovo X2xx or T4xx but the numeric keypad rules them out. I'm surprised you had issues with a Lenovo though, what was it? Maybe a T5xx series would be good as having the same sort of ancestry as the ones I've always found to be good.