Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox ( atleast 20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram) I can only run firefox, and small IDE. No multimedia at one go. It hangs... though I use xubuntu.
OS :- Kubuntu.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox ( atleast 20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram) I can only run firefox, and small IDE. No multimedia at one go. It hangs... though I use xubuntu.
OS :- Kubuntu.
I have seen a couple of Dell and Acer laptops in that range which support linux quite well. But the best way would be to go to a showroom with a live cd and test it out yourself since the ones that are tested are a bit old and newer machines are available with better specifications. So, you can have a look at Dell and Acer models in your price range and then go to showroom and test it out.
On Sunday 30 May 2010 12:47 AM, Mehul Ved wrote:
But the best way would be to go to a showroom with a live cd and test it out yourself since the ones that are tested are a bit old and newer machines are available with better specifications. So, you can have a look at Dell and Acer models in your price range and then go to showroom and test it out.
The problem though is that many shops don't keep many laptops on display. So firstly you will have to find the showroom which does that.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox ( atleast 20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram)
Avoid configs with 3GB RAM (they are 2GB + 1GB) and you will have to toss the 1GB in case you want to upgrade to 4GB.
In case you want to run Kernel Virtual Machine, then most Intel CPU laptops will not support KVM.
FWIW, I bought an Acer 5542 about 6 months ago and I am quite happy with it. All devices were detected out of the box. Although there is no specific BIOS setting for virtualization - the system supports KVM.
-- Arun Khan
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox ( atleast 20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram)
Avoid configs with 3GB RAM (they are 2GB + 1GB) and you will have to toss the 1GB in case you want to upgrade to 4GB.
In case you want to run Kernel Virtual Machine, then most Intel CPU laptops will not support KVM.
I will not be using KVM. My need is just for Development.
I thik dell's R series is good. so any of you guys already using it so please give a suggestion.
On Sunday 30 May 2010 12:40 AM, Mukesh Yadav wrote:
Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox ( atleast 20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram) I can only run firefox, and small IDE. No multimedia at one go. It hangs... though I use xubuntu.
OS :- Kubuntu.
For the price mentioned above you will get the latest i-core series processors with 3 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD in Acer. A little more and you will get the same in Dell. Do give Ubuntu a trial too.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:26, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 30 May 2010 12:40 AM, Mukesh Yadav wrote:
Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox ( atleast 20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram) I can
only
run firefox, and small IDE. No multimedia at one go. It hangs... though I use xubuntu.
OS :- Kubuntu.
For the price mentioned above you will get the latest i-core series processors with 3 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD in Acer. A little more and you will get the same in Dell. Do give Ubuntu a trial too.
Yeah- Acer is definitely decent value for money. I bought an Aspire 4736 with a C2D processor, 3GB DDR3, 320GB HDD at some 32K over a year ago. If your budget is 35K, you should definitely be able to get a much better config. Pretty much everything works out of the box for Ubuntu. I needed good number crunching ability- and have got it. If you don't need that sort of power, you can save yourself a lot of money.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengupta@iitb.ac.inwrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:26, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 30 May 2010 12:40 AM, Mukesh Yadav wrote:
Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox (
atleast
20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram) I can
only
run firefox, and small IDE. No multimedia at one go. It hangs... though
I
use xubuntu.
OS :- Kubuntu.
For the price mentioned above you will get the latest i-core series processors with 3 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD in Acer. A little more and you will get the same in Dell. Do give Ubuntu a trial too.
Yeah- Acer is definitely decent value for money. I bought an Aspire 4736 with a C2D processor, 3GB DDR3, 320GB HDD at some 32K over a year ago. If your budget is 35K, you should definitely be able to get a much better config. Pretty much everything works out of the box for Ubuntu. I needed good number crunching ability- and have got it. If you don't need that sort of power, you can save yourself a lot of money.
so what is batter life ? how much time it can run with full charge ?
is i3 and Core2Duo is same ? or there is major difference
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengupta@iitb.ac.inwrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:26, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 30 May 2010 12:40 AM, Mukesh Yadav wrote:
Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you
people
suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox (
atleast
20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram) I can
only
run firefox, and small IDE. No multimedia at one go. It hangs...
though I
use xubuntu.
OS :- Kubuntu.
For the price mentioned above you will get the latest i-core series processors with 3 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD in Acer. A little more and you will get the same in Dell. Do give Ubuntu a trial too.
Yeah- Acer is definitely decent value for money. I bought an Aspire 4736 with a C2D processor, 3GB DDR3, 320GB HDD at some 32K over a year ago. If your budget is 35K, you should definitely be able to get a much better config. Pretty much everything works out of the box for Ubuntu. I needed good number crunching ability- and have got it. If you don't need that sort of power, you can save yourself a lot of money.
so what is batter life ? how much time it can run with full charge ?
--
-- Regards Mukesh Yadav
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 16:30, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
is i3 and Core2Duo is same ? or there is major difference
They are different. The core i series has simultaneous multithreading which
is meant to provide two threads per core- so a total of 4 threads. A lot of the performance here depends on how good the software is though. It also has an integrated memory controller- which allows for lesser latency for access to RAM, turbo-boost- which allows the dynamic change of clock speed depending on the work load, and power gating- where cores can be turned off if they aren't needed. You may want to read up on which features are applicable to the i3 specifically though- it's near the lower end of the Nehalem spectrum.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengupta@iitb.ac.inwrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 16:30, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
is i3 and Core2Duo is same ? or there is major difference
They are different. The core i series has simultaneous multithreading
which is meant to provide two threads per core- so a total of 4 threads. A lot of the performance here depends on how good the software is though. It also has an integrated memory controller- which allows for lesser latency for access to RAM, turbo-boost- which allows the dynamic change of clock speed depending on the work load, and power gating- where cores can be turned off if they aren't needed. You may want to read up on which features are applicable to the i3 specifically though- it's near the lower end of the Nehalem spectrum.
hey thanks @aditya that helped me.
Yeah- Acer is definitely decent value for money. I bought an Aspire 4736 with a C2D processor, 3GB DDR3, 320GB HDD at some 32K over a year ago. If your budget is 35K, you should definitely be able to get a much better config. Pretty much everything works out of the box for Ubuntu. I needed good number crunching ability- and have got it. If you don't need that
sort
of power, you can save yourself a lot of money.
so what is batter life ? how much time it can run with full charge ?
Battery time is not that good- but that wasn't a major priority for me. You
could get a better battery if you need it. Mine runs for 2 - 3 hours depending on what's the computer is running. I barely ever use it without plugging it in somewhere.
On Sunday 30 May 2010 04:28 PM, Mukesh Yadav wrote:
Yeah- Acer is definitely decent value for money. I bought an Aspire 4736 with a C2D processor, 3GB DDR3, 320GB HDD at some 32K over a year ago. If your budget is 35K, you should definitely be able to get a much better config. Pretty much everything works out of the box for Ubuntu. I needed good number crunching ability- and have got it. If you don't need that sort of power, you can save yourself a lot of money.
so what is batter life ? how much time it can run with full charge ?
Battery life should be about 3 hours.
Hey Friends, Finally bought DELL inspiron HD 500Gb RAM 4 GB ddr3 1GB ATI redeon graphics without OS. For 36500 Rs.
Tested Ubuntu 10.04. Still not got the chance to test the wi-fi. For graphics had to install driver's and also for wi-fi.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 30 May 2010 04:28 PM, Mukesh Yadav wrote:
Yeah- Acer is definitely decent value for money. I bought an Aspire 4736 with a C2D processor, 3GB DDR3, 320GB HDD at some 32K over a year ago.
If
your budget is 35K, you should definitely be able to get a much better config. Pretty much everything works out of the box for Ubuntu. I needed good number crunching ability- and have got it. If you don't need that
sort
of power, you can save yourself a lot of money.
so what is batter life ? how much time it can run with full charge ?
Battery life should be about 3 hours.
-- Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.
On 2 June 2010 12:59, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Friends, Finally bought DELL inspiron HD 500Gb RAM 4 GB ddr3 1GB ATI redeon graphics without OS. For 36500 Rs.
Could you please mention the model no.?
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2010 12:59, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Friends, Finally bought DELL inspiron HD 500Gb RAM 4 GB ddr3 1GB ATI redeon graphics without OS. For 36500 Rs.
Could you please mention the model no.?
yeah sure it is Dell inspiron 1464.
@sanket I got it from Mahavir Electronics 10/A Yamuna, Opp police stn. Topwala lane. ph. 23840388
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2010 12:59, Mukesh Yadav mak.gnu@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Friends, Finally bought DELL inspiron HD 500Gb RAM 4 GB ddr3 1GB ATI redeon graphics without OS. For 36500 Rs.
Could you please mention the model no.?
yeah sure it is Dell inspiron 1464.
@sanket I got it from Mahavir Electronics 10/A Yamuna, Opp police stn. Topwala lane. ph. 23840388
@Mukesh
Please also mention whether you bought it without OS (or with FreeDOS), or you had to upgrade later, since Sanket's motive for asking the store you got it from is that in particular.
Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065
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