On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:39:19PM -0800, Heather wrote: > Vendors right off the top of my head: Ascentia (sp?), Imperial, Kachinatech > (but the model they sell is far slower than you want), Dell if you twist their > arm, ARM Computer. I'm sure there are a few more, maybe I'll bother to > look at the hardware howto and narrow it down sometime.
Apple makes laptops that run debian-powerpc quite nicely, but are pretty pricey :( Good battery life and no noisy power-sucking fans though. Ascentia was a line of laptops made by AST. AST is out of business now. Good thing, too, according to this tremendously pissed off customer: http://www.netppl.fi/~findians/paper.html I don't know if all AST laptops suck as much as this guy says they do, but my AST Ascentia 810N is, um, ok. It has a nice trackball, not a little mouse nipple in the middle of the keyboard, and it runs cool enough to be called a laptop (even for people wearing shorts :). The biggest problem is that I can't upgrade the RAM past 20MB :( I got it for only 300 $ last year, so I'd say it's worth it. Anyway, you [Yannick] might want to consider a used laptop unless you have a good reason for needing an 800MHz Pentium III. You can get a pretty good machine for a whole lot less than you'd pay for a new one. My next laptop will probably be a powerpc or an AMD K6-2 (or some other K6-* processor). If you ever need to seriously crunch anything, just ssh to a powerful desktop box. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
