[GTALUG] Recommendations for useful laptop suitable for Ubuntu

[Dave Collier-Brown]

On 2019-07-15 12:41 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:

> What my wife's T430 has gone through is nuts while still working.
>
> Yesterday the (almost) 2 year old was standing on it (it was closed).
> Still working, although it appears the chasis may be slightly bent now.
> I believe he is about 35 pounds.  Poor thinkpad.
>
> Not to mention how many times it has been pushed onto the floor from
> the coffee table, yanked by the power cord, had things stacked on it, etc.

At Hugh's suggestion, I bought a T440 a while ago. It came with all the
old connectors (eg, VGA) and the new ones (mini hdmi) and socketed
memory, so I could order it with 32GB and not have to futz with anything.

The only problem is that it looks old-fashioned (:-()

--dave

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