My laptop died and I only have a iPad now.

I'm looking for laptop for Linux a good spects of price range from $200 to $400. I have no money to go above $400.

The only laptop I have seen any where close to good spects is some of Acer laptops and some the older refurbished HP laptops.

Does Acer Sprin 1 work well with Linux

https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/acer-spin-1

Or the Acer Aprin 15

https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/la...15-e5-575-33bm

I will be duel booting with Ubuntu Mate.

Anyone here have these laptops using Linux?

I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 with an AMD A6 a couple of weeks ago at Best Buy for $250.00.
I left windows on it and am running Manjaro on it.

speaking DELL
$279.99
Up to $16 back
in rewards
woo hoo! 16 bucks gets you a SD Card or someting.

I picked up on an hp ElieteBook eBay special 100bucks droped a few more in it to beef it up,and I have had no issues with it. so old or used is not always a bad thing either. you should be able to pick up something you can like and use for 400 or under. Just keep looking around and comparing hardware.

buy used.

linux development needs time to catch up with new hardware, so it makes all the more sense to buy something matured.
at least one full year.

also something that allows to upgrade RAM & drives.

also be aware of drivers and firmware for graphics:
although open source versions exist, one is often better off using dedicated but closed source linux drivers, e.g. nvidia.
intel drivers are open source, but newer models benefit from (usually non-free) firmware.

and wifi, those are sometimes closed source, and often require non-free firmware.

OK to had to the hardware list Intel wifi over broadcom -> go intel

I have had good luck with several Dells, but their lower-end machines tend to have Broadcom wurekess, which is annoying, but not insurmountable. I also had an Acer that performed nicely.

Several of the members of my LUG swear by Lenovo.

As BW-userx says, you generally can't go wrong with all Intel inside.

Problem is getting good laptop at low price that supports Linux.

Most are not 1920 * 1080 but 1366 * 768 and 4GB of RAM and Celeron or Pentium.

Any thing under $700 seem to be 1366* 768 and 4GB and Celeron or Pentium.

I may have to go with refurbish at least they are cheaper and many have Intel core i5

How do you know what computers have Broadcom has it does not say in the spects.

find one you think you want then google the spect on it using make model. keep looking until you find a sight shows spects sometime it good to just go to the manufactures web page. or their tech support pages. I have not found a laptop yet that I have not found the specs for it that I was looking for.

Hi,

I also agree with the refurbished Laptop. I've purchased several Dell Refurbished Laptops. My Dell XPS i7 is about five years old and still going strong. Upgrades include larger 500GB SSD along with increased memory to 16GB. My distribution of choice is Slackware so my Intel graphics are 1900 x 1080 but if I use bumblebeed then much better for the Optimus at a larger power use so most times my Intel GPU is active.

I did replace the battery pack at a reasonable cost from Dell. My wifi card was replaced by Dell under warranty when my signal quality started to suffer. No questions, in home repair. This XPS is not something you would want to lug around since it is build like a tank. Full keyboard, 17 inch display brings it around 7 LBS.

EDIT: This XPS does have dual bay drive support so I can use two SSD within the system or one SSD and a Hybrid HDD.

This is my fourth Refurbished Dell purchase and I would recommend anyone to make a deal with Dell. Great customer support and warranty.

For the sake of clarity, I am not affiliated nor work for Dell but a loyal satisfied customer.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

If you look at Dell, if possible I'd stick to the Latitude lines. Slightly better build quality than Inspiron, and very few Latitudes have Broadcom wireless. Most have full Intel everything.

Lenovo Thinkpads are also usually good with linux compatibility.

I've had mixed results with HP. Some VERY nice linux friendly hardware, and some that were absolute terrors. All within their Elitebook/Probook lineup (business class, again).

I haven't had a lot of experience with other OEMs to have a valid opinion.

I think refurbish my be the only option for that price range for some what good spects.

As most laptop price range from $200 to $400 have a Celeron or Pentimum and 4GB of RAM or less.

There are some Refurbish HP EliteBook for $200 like the HP EliteBook 8440p and HP EliteBook 8460 for $200

Every month they have number refurbish HP EliteBook they have some of thinkpads like the T420, E440 , T410 and L520 all for under $150.

HP -- sometimes if you keep looking at eBay someone puts up a bunch cooperate oldies. where someone upgraded a bunch so they picked up on the old ones and are now dumping them on ebay for a quick buck. that is how I picked up mine for 100 bucks, broken keyboard, but that was a 20 dollar easy fix. for an i5 quad core. the rest was in brand new condition.

+1 on the Acer. I bought an Aspire for a little over $100. It's not good for multi-tab web browsing, but no hardware problems installing Arch, and adequate performance for basic email and other such tasks. Go with a light DE like xfce or better still a window manager.

getting good quality for a low prices is always difficult, but often not impossible.

i would:

1. do lots of general research
2. ask questions on the apprpriate channels if unclarity remains
3. look for good prices on ebay etc.

this strategy has served me well with electronics.

And Linux support is pretty close to 100% these days.

so, what did you end up with?