[plug] buying a laptop in Perth

[Marco Dorfliger]

Hi all,

Just wanted to follow this up. In the end I took Arjen Lentz's advice, and
after some searching bit the bullet and even bought the Lenovo Yoga laptop
he linked [1] (it's down to $934 btw - since I bought mine, sadly).
The only thing I did differently to Arjen is that I don't have a 1TB 2.5"
SSD drive lying around, so I ended up shaving off 30GB for a dual-boot
partition. I had issues getting the Linux Mint cinnamon (18.3)  installer
to recognise the Samsung SSD drive, but fortunately stackexchange exists
[2], and so with some bios fiddling it's working nicely now.

Many thanks to all!

Marco

[1]
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/laptops/lenovo/lenovo-yoga-520-14-2-in-1-laptop-onyx-black/503711/
[2]
https://superuser.com/questions/1022849/m-2-samsung-sm951-nvme-ssd-not-recognized-on-linux

On 3 February 2018 at 08:17, Marco Dorfliger <choppus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks for all of the insightful advice. After some painstaking
> deliberation (geez, these decisions are really hard) I bit the bullet and
> paid Microsoft their monopoly tax. Meh. Now just to wait for my new toy to
> arrive.
>
> Cheers!
> Marco
>
> On 31 January 2018 at 21:58, byron ester <byronester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok. So I'm late to the conversation. Whoops :)
>> I was just reading the Ubuntu homepage and noticed this.
>>
>> https://partners.ubuntu.com/programmes/retail
>>
>> from my Nexus 7 Tablet
>>
>> On 26 Jan 2018 2:56 PM, "Marco Dorfliger" <choppus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm a recent arrival to Perth, and I'm looking to buy a linux laptop
>>> (without the windows-tax). Where do you guys source your hardware?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Marco
>>>
>>> (P.S. sorry if this has been asked before - the archives are all
>>> gzipped, and the search doesn't work it)
>>>
>>> (P.P.S happy Australia day!)
>>>
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