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I own a Notebook ASUS X200M (herewith a pic). It is a awesome machine. Furthermore, you can buy it without Windows!! I bought it with preinstalled FREEDOS, and then installing Linux was very simple. No windozed uefi/boot locking.
ASUS is a very nice company. Furthermore ASUS supports opensource.
The X200M is about 120-140 gramms only. I ordered it with two power supplies, one for work and one for on-trips.
I am looking for a quite similar replacement from the same producer ASUS. I would be happy to have a NVIDIA rather than HD Intel graphics, but it seems that it is not possible. Which one would you recommend?
The lightweight, strong build and A4 (21cm x 29cm) would be ideal.
I dont want a movable screen to make it as a tablet, because I will loose of the rocky strong and antishock features.
Interface 1 x Microphone-in jack / Headphone-out jack
1 x VGA External Display Port
1 x HDMI External Display Port
1 x RJ45 LAN Ethernet Port
2 x USB 2.0
1 x USB 3.0
Warranty New with 1 year Manufacturer Warranty
1 Year ASUS Accidental Damage Protection (1 Claim)
The installation of WLAN is also very simple, and it is working well on Debian.
Code:
lscpu
lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 55
Stepping: 3
CPU MHz: 1866.531
BogoMIPS: 3733.57
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 24K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 1024K
I always go for "free os" when buying laptop. Secondary requsite is kernel compatible wifi and graphics that you can check on your friend laptop or physical store with bootable usb flash. Investing money in graphics is useful when one would play 3d accelerated games. Best buy may depend on your usage plan so if possible, make it and post it here.
Limiting choices to one manufacturer? Mostly choose about case quality&design. Logo on monitor back? -it is all the same.
Out of curiosity, is FreeDOS usable as a "normal" everyday operating system? Or do they just throw it on their computers so they can say "Hey, here's a free OS" without having to actually configure something like Ubuntu to work on it?
When i worked in computers store we sold linux laptop. Guy wanted to have GUI Linux, but get cli linux that was not able to boot in to cli! I installed PinguyOS (OS with non-free drivers) and heck! wifi card was kernel incompatible. Sad story, if you want linux laptop, ask here, don't go to store, I have free shipping worldwide!
I always go for "free os" when buying laptop. Secondary requsite is kernel compatible wifi and graphics that you can check on your friend laptop or physical store with bootable usb flash. Investing money in graphics is useful when one would play 3d accelerated games. Best buy may depend on your usage plan so if possible, make it and post it here.
Limiting choices to one manufacturer? Mostly choose about case quality&design. Logo on monitor back? -it is all the same.
bootable usb pendrive:
Unetbootin is really an highly awful method to install/put linux on a pendrive.
Furthermore unetbootin is likely not to work.
I like the booting of antix since it works on any machines.
Ubuntu booting is not reliable, and mostly never work on modern machines.
When i worked in computers store we sold linux laptop. Guy wanted to have GUI Linux, but get cli linux that was not able to boot in to cli! I installed PinguyOS (OS with non-free drivers) and heck! wifi card was kernel incompatible. Sad story, if you want linux laptop, ask here, don't go to store, I have free shipping worldwide!
I believe that yes. Anyone using Freedos?
Me I use mostly my own ncurse environment for remaning highly efficient. Dont you see that MS Office killed the productivity ?
LINUX ON YOUR NOTEBOOK WITHOUT UEFI !!
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The Asus EeeBook X205TA offers excellent battery life, a solid display ... (2.16-GHz Intel N2840 CPU) <-- loosy cpu one!
Lenovo's S21e is more of a large netbook than a small laptop—but it also ... Inside, we have an Intel Celeron processor (the N2840, <-- loosy cpu one!
The new Braswell-based N3150 is a much slower on the CPU side, at 1.6GHz / 2.08GHz, but offers faster RAM, significantly improved graphics hardware (ameliorated somewhat by lower base and turbo clocks on the GPU side) and a 6W TDP. That’s a 20% reduction on Bay Trail’s previous — we picked chips at the top of Intel’s TDP range because the high-end cores are the most likely to hit those figures. 1.5W may not sound like much, but in a 30Whr battery that’s the difference between four and five hours of runtime.
the best is probably:
Asus F200LA-CT022H 29,4 cm (11,6 Zoll) Netbook (Intel Core i3 4010U, 1,7GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Intel HD, Win 8, Touchscreen) schwarz
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