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Re: [LUG] college laptops
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] college laptops
- From: comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:53:10 +0000
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On 11/12/2020 12:10, Sebastian wrote:
A good second-hand laptop, say, with 4GB of RAM, will cost about £200; a
more new entry-level laptop could still be under £400, despite the
pandemic forcing prices up. For basic web browsing, multimedia (I
imagine the use-case will include no small amount of
video-conferencing!) and word processing that kind of PC should be fine.
4GB of RAM and an Intel Core Duo is enough even for Windows 10, and will
have no trouble running something like Debian or Trisquel smoothly.
Alright, thought experiment time.
Remember Tom isn't just buying his daughter the single most important
piece of kit she's going to use to study for her science degree with for
the next three years, but it's also HER XMAS PRESENT!
Your suggestion amounts to giving her a lump of coal. Happy Xmas Darling!
Imagine you're her and you unwrap a third hand 12 year old scruffy x86
laptop, complete with peeling "designed for Windows Vista" stickers on
it. It's a Dual core Duo (lol) with 4Gb of DDR2. That dull TFT LCD panel
will be a joy to stare at for X hours a day in glorious faded 1366x768
I'm sure. Weighs about as much as breeze block, roughly similar
proportions. Battery life approximately 2 hours. Never mind, at least
Dad's preinstalled some crappy dual boot loser OS on the 320Gb 5400rpm
for some incomprehensible reason when you need Windows.
How are you feeling about your present now?
It feels like at this point you're trying to actively sabotage her. Do
you want her to disown Tom and fail her degree? What kind of monster are
you?!
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