Hi-res refurb Dell laptop. Comments?

[charles chris]

Its a refurb steal!  $200  cheaper than what paid for Compaq cq50 1.9 ghz
dual core 1280 X 800 15.6 display in 2008.

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hey LUG'ers,
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> I've currently got an Asus laptop. Beautiful power with a Core i7, 8GB
> of RAM, etc.
>
> However, I've been doing a lot of dev work lately, and the one falling
> point I've run into is that 1366x768 isn't a lot of real-estate
> screen-size
>
> I started looking at what's available for larger screens, and noticed
> this little guy with a 1920x1200 native LCD resolution.
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> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200599&Tpk=M6300
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> Obviously it's a bit older and the Core2 probably isn't going to keep
> up with my i7, but according to here the Linux compatibility is good:
>   http://www.linlap.com/wiki/dell+precision+m6300
>
>
> Anyone have one of these and/or know how well it performs on a recent
> linux distro? At $267 the price is quite nice...
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