All,
At the request of a volunteer, we've purchased three more laptops for
events. They're free for any volunteer to take along to events - just ask
us and we'll get them sent to you or the event.
These ones are quite powerful, and relatively lightweight - they're the
same ones that we used at IBM as company laptops. They are extremely robust
- I've seen things happen to them that would make a Mac cry. The laptops
themselves are specced as follows: "Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 15, Intel Core
i3-380M processor, 15.6" screen, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD". They have a webcam,
and a card reader, and a dual-layer DVD+-RW drive.
They all come with Windows 7 installed, but it'd be nice if a volunteer
with experience in open-source software came in and got them to dual-boot
with a suitable version of Linux. Any volunteers?
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992
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