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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 9:28 AM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "Don Crowder" <donguitar@gmail.com><br/>
<b>To:</b> "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <nmglug@lists.nmglug.org><br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nmglug] recommendations for $400 laptops to run GNU/Linux?</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/EVOO-15-6-FHD-Ultra-Thin-Intel-Core-i7-8GB-Memory-256GB-SSD-Windows-10-Home-Black/980142444" target="_blank">https://www.walmart.com/ip/EVOO-15-6-FHD-Ultra-Thin-Intel-Core-i7-8GB-Memory-256GB-SSD-Windows-10-Home-Black/980142444</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 8:29 AM Mark Galassi <<a href="mailto:mark@galassi.org" onclick="parent.window.location.href='mailto:mark@galassi.org'; return false;" target="_blank">mark@galassi.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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Dear nmglug-ers,<br/>
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I'm about to have 11 students in the upcoming Institute for Computing in Research internship program (<a href="https://computinginresearch.org/" target="_blank">https://computinginresearch.org/</a>) purchase laptops to run a GNU/Linux distribution.<br/>
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We subsidize them for up to $400 on these laptops.<br/>
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In the first two years things went OK but with some problems: most of the laptops ended up being $400 plus something, straining our budget, and some of them had annoyances with microphone and wifi drivers.<br/>
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Does anyone keep up to date on best laptops for the linux kernel in various price ranges? Any advice?<br/>
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And there is also always a question running in the back of my head: would anyone know how to find a local (or global) business that might subsidize the laptops for our students? I keep thinking that there must be some way to get Lenovo or some other company to either give away some laptops, or to sell us a $560 laptop for $400 -- we are a very deserving non-profit, after all.<br/>
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Unfortunately so far my attempts at following the chain of companies to their educational outreach people have turned out to be time-consuming dead ends.<br/>
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