<div dir="ltr">I have a crapton of laptops. The 2 I use the most are a 13" Macbook Pro, which I specced out to the max on everything except the disk (32GB ram, i7, 2TB SSD) on the last of the Intel Mac laptops. The 2nd is a Acer Chromebook 514, an ARM based unit with 8 cores and 8GB of memory. It has the ability to run Android apps, plus a Linux subsystem, and is quite useful. A lot of scientific instruments are controlled via Android apps (my telescopes and microscope for example) and it's nice to be able to have a decent sized screen and keyboard for that. <div><br></div><div>The other laptops range from el-cheapo laptops that were originally running home Windows (2G ram, 32G SSD) which I've dropped Linux on to make it useful, a GPD Pocket PC which has built in serial & ethernet, and fits in a pock, a GPD Pocket 3, which has a lot of useful plugins (HDMI capture, serial, ethernet), but as yet, doesn't do deep sleeping nicely under Linux, and few of the other GPD units</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 12:34, Russell Coker via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/783814" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/783814</a><br>
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These look like good deals, laptops with 8G of RAM for $200 or less. 8G isn't <br>
good for Windows but is great for Linux, my personal laptop has 8G of RAM and <br>
works very nicely.<br>
<br>
Some of those laptops have USB-C which allows connecting to a dock to easily <br>
run with a big monitor (or multiple monitors) and the full range of desktop <br>
peripherals. A USB-C dock with Ethernet, HDMI, and multiple USB ports starts <br>
at about $25 on ebay. But if you want to run an older laptop that way you <br>
need to check the specs carefully, there were some laptops released with USB-C <br>
that didn't have Displayport/HDMI/Thunderbolt functionality in that port. I <br>
haven't checked the specs carefully on those laptops, just briefly skimmed <br>
them to determine that some have USB-C and some don't.<br>
<br>
Also these prices while deemed a bargain by the ozbargain people probably <br>
aren't that far outside the general price range. If you want something <br>
similar but slightly different you can probably find it on ebay or amazon.<br>
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<a href="https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/06/01/desktop-computers-sense/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/06/01/desktop-computers-sense/</a><br>
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As an aside I think that nowadays for most people desktop computers don't make <br>
sense. Unless you do serious 3d gaming a laptop can probably do everything <br>
you need to do.<br>
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