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 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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?
Well, without wanting to start a complete firestorm, dualbooting Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) via Wubi is really very easy indeed for 95% of setups [1]. Depending on your internet package, you might want to use the "Download Ubuntu" link in the bottom left, burn it to CD, insert CD, then run Wubi to avoid downloading Ubuntu three times over.
I did the same only last week, no problems whatsoever.
-- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)
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.
Harry, Andrew, thanks for your advice! Andrew, since you've offered, there's a desk available for you if you'd like to drop in next week :-) Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
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.
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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