On 31 July 2012 12:03, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

On 31 July 2012 11:08, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> 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?

I use xubuntu 12.04 on an almost identical laptop (a Thinkpad
L-420/i3), and can report it has no problems at all dual-booting
beyond a slight bit of confusion in the bootloader. (For some reason,
it thinks there are two Linuxes and two Windows 7 setups on the same
machine. Beats me.) If you'd like me to do the same to these, I can
come in sometime this week or next - I'm working from home several
days, but working from the office is more or less the same...

These are very robust, very pleasant machines to use. Thanks for
getting them, Richard, it'll make future outreach a lot easier to
organise.

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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk