Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
For those who have already finished their turkey, or reside outside
the US and don't celebrate Thanksgiving, or for whatever reason are
actually reading debian-user today...
I finally have some spare cash and so am looking to replace my aged
IBM Thinkpad 390. All the sale flyers came in today's paper for
sales tomorrow and Saturday. I need some advice on which laptop to
get. I have looked around on Google, at linuxlaptops.com and such.
A lot of what I see is several years old and I could use some current
tips from people running linux on current machines.
I expect I will be doing some programming, some word-processing, a
little image manipulation, possibly a small amount of sound file
manipulation. I might also move my website maintenance from the
desktop to the laptop. I am not a gamer! This is probably not going
to be a "heavy load" machine, but I want something that will work
well for me and not give me any headaches. I have enough of those,
already.
These are what I am currently looking at:
Toshiba Satellite ($299.99 US)
Intel Celeron M 420
512 MB DDR2 RAM
80 GB HD
CD-RW/DVD
802.11 a/b/g
Where do you get these prices? I checked Newegg and for a TOSHIBA
Satellite A105-S2201 they want $690.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834114271
These were special "Day after Thanksgiving" sales. I misplaced the
sales flyers, but I believe that the Toshiba was at Office epot and the
HP was at Best Buy. I still have the Staples add for the Compaq.
As good as the prices were, quantities are very limited and everyone is
out shopping today. I decided that it was not worth getting up and out
of the house before dark to get in line before the stores opened to try
for one of these. I've decided that Ill just hang in there for another
few months of actual employment to get the finances in better order and
then, maybe, I can look at Thinkpads.
--
Marc Shapiro
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!
- Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail
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