I probably should already know the answer to this.. but spending money makes me stupid.
I have been running Mint on a Dell Inspiron 3000 (at least 7 years old) for a couple of years. I am looking
at upgrading to a refurbished Dell Latitude 5440.
I assume that since Dell ships many flavors of these with Ubuntu, that Linux Mint would safely
install and run okay as well.
The only specs I think I care about are 16G of RAM and a 512G HDD.
Should I go for it?
Thanks,
MJM
Dell Latitudes
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Re: Dell Latitudes
I installed Mint Cinnamon on a refurb Dell Latitude 7490 last year. No issues at all.
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Dell Latitude 7490 Mint 21.3 Ker 5.15.0-105 Cinn 6.0.4
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Re: Dell Latitudes
I'm on an old Latitude E6410 (2017) with Mint 20.3 XFCE & all works fine for me.
Re: Dell Latitudes
I have two Dell Latitude 7490s with 16GB of RAM. One has a 256GB SSD and the other has a 1TB SSD. They were both originally Win10 machines, but run the latest Linux Mint 21 flawlessly. I picked up both machines cheaply on eBay. Both were seller refurbished. The 1TB unit came with Linux Mint 20 installed, and included a USB flash drive for system recovery, which I used to give the 256GB unit the ultimate upgrade from Win10 to Linux Mint 20. They are my daily drivers and I couldn't be happier with them.
Re: Dell Latitudes
Looking at the specs for the Latitude 5440 that has a 13th gen intel cpu. You will need the edge version of the iso for that hardware. I would be very surprised if it has an HDD, it is likely to be an nvme drive.birdman518 wrote: ⤴Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:36 pm The only specs I think I care about are 16G of RAM and a 512G HDD.
Thinkcentre M720Q - LM21.3 cinnamon, 4 x T430 - LM21.3 cinnamon, Homebrew desktop i5-8400+GTX1080 Cinnamon 19.0
Re: Dell Latitudes
Installed Mint Cinnamon 21.1 on a Latitude 7390 without problems. Running it for about a year now.