. Designed
and supported in the UK. Custom mfg in China.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:13:03 -0500
Roger Heflin <rogerheflin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have been buying the lowest priced HP/Acer/ASUS that has the
features I want. I don't know that there is much difference between
them, and I am not sure who the real maker/designed of the laptop is.
See the ODM section on this page; From that it becomes clear you have
zero idea who really made/designed the product and how good of a job
they did. So pick the price and features that you want and ignore
the Brand as the brand seems to matter little anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manufacturers
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:36 AM bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi George.
>
> The laptop in question would be one of the AMD 5 ryzen 6/10 core
> systems from the hp site.
>
> I'd add mem/1TB internal drive as well.
>
> thanks for your comments!
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:05 AM George N. White III
> <gnwiii(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:21 PM bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> Looking at getting another laptop.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts on completely transferring as well as updating the
> >> data on the current drive to the new laptop.
> >
> >
> > I populate my home directory on a new machine from the backup of
> > the old machine. In the past I used NFS, but now my backups are
> > on USB drives. It Is helpful to have the old machine in working
> > order to troubleshoot things that break on the new system
> > (usually my own programs that use a library that is no longer
> > available from distros — a hint that I need to find a newer
> > library.
> >>
> >>
> >> Assume I might be dealing with a diff flavor of linux. I'm not
> >> sure what the new laptop will have.
> >>
> >> I don't want bleeding edge fedora.. (unless I change my mind).
> >>
> >> I don't want RHEL/centos -- I'd like to be newer.
> >>
> >> So, give me your thoughts as well as best practice that you use
> >> for this kind of process...
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