On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 09:53:50PM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:

My laptop is vexing me muchly.

I think it's time for a new one, possibly brand-spanking new.

It doesn't have to have a large screen. I'm currently using only about 50GB disk space of a 500GB disk, so any disk size probably, but probably would want at least 256GB. Ram, I'm struggling with 2GB ( a lot of paging to disk).  I'm guessing about 8?  I have lots of browser windows open.

Running some flavour of xubuntu or lubutu, or perhaps mint.

No idea what sort of processor I'd need. Like some sort of optical drive & fair battery life.

Extra bonus feature:  I hate touchpads, so if it had a mouse "nipple" I'd be made up!!

So folks.... What's good? ISTR that Thinkpads were good. Are Dells good with preinstalled ubuntu at the moment? Any recommended suppliers or hardware or any other comments?

I've bought refurbished X and T series Lenovo Thinkpads for my past few laptops (and my wife's). Currently I have a T470 which is lovely.