there are few PC vendors (Dell included) offering first class Linux support for some of their products. You can order a laptop with Linux installed out of the box. No need to use old and outdated hardware.
I went to check Dell website and indeed what seems like the successor of OPs laptop, Latitude 5440, is available with Ubuntu, so that is nice. Although even with Latitudes it seems bit hit and miss which models are and are not configurable with Ubuntu.
But the most confusing thing to me is that I also found Precision 3480, which looks exactly same as that Latitude 5440, is available in similar configurations and even costs roughly the same. I struggle to understand what is going on here, why is the seemingly same thing sold under two different models?
For the same reason car designs share a base. So the base for a workstation (precision) and office (latitude) is basucally the same, but upgrade options are different, e.g. Xeon and quadro options.
zokier|2 years ago
But the most confusing thing to me is that I also found Precision 3480, which looks exactly same as that Latitude 5440, is available in similar configurations and even costs roughly the same. I struggle to understand what is going on here, why is the seemingly same thing sold under two different models?
diffeomorphism|2 years ago
cdogl|2 years ago
sys_64738|2 years ago