anyone know of a decent laptop that (relatively) cheap for dual booting linux/win10
@theorytoe HP 840 g3/G4, get the one with the screen protector key (perfect for wagecages or public places with nosy normies)
@theorytoe https://www.ebay.com/itm/275912935971
Here you go it has "the key" to stop normies from staring at your porn collection on Fedi (f2, notice the icon).
Also fhd and thunderbolt.
Here you go it has "the key" to stop normies from staring at your porn collection on Fedi (f2, notice the icon).
Also fhd and thunderbolt.
@theorytoe as for how good these are:
My normie coworkers have abused them by carrying them one handed WHILE OPEN and holding them by the palmrest, one of them looks like a dog took a bite out of the corner of the lcd and still works, and I'm sure they've been dropped a few times by clumsy normies too busy focused on what laptop stickers and shitty normie clothes they want (under armor and hurley, etc.). They still work.
My normie coworkers have abused them by carrying them one handed WHILE OPEN and holding them by the palmrest, one of them looks like a dog took a bite out of the corner of the lcd and still works, and I'm sure they've been dropped a few times by clumsy normies too busy focused on what laptop stickers and shitty normie clothes they want (under armor and hurley, etc.). They still work.
@PurpCat huh ill definetly give it a look then
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Any HP ProBook with Haswell CPU or newer should be able to run Win10, I have ProBook 430 G1 that is a decade old and it ran Win10 just fine, I have a MacBook Pro with i7, but even earlier microarch, and it ran Win10 just fine. I have Mac Pro 3,1 — it has Xeon, but it's 15 (!) years old, Core 2 era and it runs Win10 just fine. I don't know what's not good enough to run Win10, a chunk of wood? 🤣
It's same as 7 requirements-wise, stick 16 Gb and SSD into it — should be fine.
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@theorytoe Important note: all this hardware is also perfectly usable in Linux, only fingerprint scanner in my ProBook doesn't work — a pity, but not the end of the world, I've read that it works well in other models. In MacBook Pro Late 2011 everything works too — even keyboard backlight, even ambient light sensor! I've even made a script that adjusts backlight according to ambient lighting.
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