[techtalk] laptops

Maureen Lecuona lecuona at paul.rutgers.edu
Wed Nov 24 17:46:08 EST 1999


IBM has pretty decent support for the Thinkpad 600 and Red Hat.

But you won't buy one for under $3400. Check out some of the lesser vendors that
sell linux based servers: VA, Penguin   They may have laptops.

Maureen Lecuona


Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking into buying a laptop.  So far I've looked at Dell and Sony.
> > I'd consider a powerbook, if I knew I could get software for it (linux,
> > that is.)  Does anyone know of companies that sell laptops with linux
> > installed?  I don't want to have to pay for more miscrosoft if I  don't
> > have to.  I've set an upper limit around $2000 (US).
> > Thanks
> 
> You'd probably be hard pressed to find a recent (g3) powerbook for less
> than $2000, unless you're thinking iBook. Ours (g3 333) was right around
> $3000 with academic discount and slight modifications (more RAM, bigger
> hard drive, etc). Putting linux on it is an adventure, but not nearly
> impossible. The screen is huge, the sucker is fast, and the graphics
> card isn't bad (ati rage pro). No pre-installed linux (or at least it
> would be very very difficult to find that way).
> 
> I don't know of any PC companies offhand that sell laptops with linux
> pre-installed (or at least no OS, which would be better than Windows if
> you were just going to scrap it anyway). I thought Dell was beginning to
> offer such a deal, and Dell is a pretty good company to deal with (with
> very good hardware... hubby has one person in his 'domain' using one and
> they have never had a problem, don't even ask about gateway).
> 
> -nicole
> 
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