[techtalk] laptops

[Lynette Quinn]

I work for Prima Publishing.
If you can wait a month, Prima has a Linux for the Laptop book coming out.
It's written by an excellent author - Bill Ball - who has written numerous
Linux books. It should be available toward the end of June. He's been using
Linux on a laptop for more than 4 years and has about 12 or so currently
running various distributions of linux including an iBook. Even if you can't
wait that long to buy a laptop, I'd recommend the book because it'll help
you with any bumps you encounter. It also has unique content - MP3s, Web Cam
stuff, wireless networking. It's being tech edited by the lead technician at
Tuxtops.

Lynette Quinn
Prima Tech

-----Original Message-----
From: Helena Verrill [mailto:verrill at math.ku.dk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 6:41 AM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [techtalk] laptops


Thanks very much for all the comments, they are very useful.
I am looking into getting a Dell now, maybe a Latitude.
I may try getting a refurbished one; though I had a friend who
got a refurbished laptop (not a dell though) and had lots of 
trouble with it, so I hope it's not too risky.
I will probably have to get it shipped from UK, since I don't
know where any Dell dealers are locally to Copenhagen (where I
am now) - so maybe that makes it more risky to get a refurbished
one, as sending off for repairs is more trouble.

Helena



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