Re: Laptop recommendations

2004-06-06 Thread Werner Heuser
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:53:25PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > There's also, > > http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html For more providers of laptops, notebooks and PDAs with Linux pre-installed, see http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html > > And if you need to overwrite Windows, > http://w

Re: Laptop recommendations

2004-06-06 Thread Curt Howland
There's also, http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html And if you need to overwrite Windows, http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ Emperor Linux seems to have passed into non-existence. On Sunday 06 June 2004 14:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Thus spake Rolf Heckemann ([EMAIL PRO

Re: Laptop recommendations

2004-06-06 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Rolf Heckemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > In your situation, I would probably consider the Lindows Mobile PC > from sub300.com (http://www.sub300.com/port.htm). Looks interesting. Does anyone on the list have experience with these machines? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | M

Re: Laptop recommendations

2004-06-06 Thread Werner Heuser
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:53:25PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > There's also, > > http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html For more providers of laptops, notebooks and PDAs with Linux pre-installed, see http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html > > And if you need to overwrite Windows, > http://w

Re: Laptop recommendations

2004-06-06 Thread Curt Howland
There's also, http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html And if you need to overwrite Windows, http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ Emperor Linux seems to have passed into non-existence. On Sunday 06 June 2004 14:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Thus spake Rolf Heckemann ([EMAIL PRO

Re: Laptop recommendations

2004-06-06 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Rolf Heckemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > In your situation, I would probably consider the Lindows Mobile PC > from sub300.com (http://www.sub300.com/port.htm). Looks interesting. Does anyone on the list have experience with these machines? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | M

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-08 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Michael Nordmeyer wrote: > > > > Apple introduced a new iBook with 14.1" display yesterday. Check it > > out, it's on the apple site. But it's $1799 with 700Mhz and DVD/CDRW > > combo. Still quite inexpensive compared with Wintel consumer la

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-08 Thread Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan
I just checked up Compaq Presario webpages. There is something called 700 series laptops, which comes with AMD Duron processors. They seem to be cheap.(around $1000) with S3 Savage graphics chip. They have not given details of the size of the display. Anyone having experience running Debian GNU/Lin

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-08 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Michael Nordmeyer wrote: > > > > Apple introduced a new iBook with 14.1" display yesterday. Check it > > out, it's on the apple site. But it's $1799 with 700Mhz and DVD/CDRW > > combo. Still quite inexpensive compared with Wintel consumer l

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-08 Thread Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan
I just checked up Compaq Presario webpages. There is something called 700 series laptops, which comes with AMD Duron processors. They seem to be cheap.(around $1000) with S3 Savage graphics chip. They have not given details of the size of the display. Anyone having experience running Debian GNU/Li

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-08 Thread Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan
Michael Nordmeyer wrote: > > Apple introduced a new iBook with 14.1" display yesterday. Check it > out, it's on the apple site. But it's $1799 with 700Mhz and DVD/CDRW > combo. Still quite inexpensive compared with Wintel consumer laptops. > Apple hardware is solidly built. This system looks real

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-08 Thread Michael Nordmeyer
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 05:06, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) > > but iBooks are rather nice with long batter life and gorgeous > > screens. > > Yes, I checked them up. The screen size is only 12.1", a

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-08 Thread Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan
Michael Nordmeyer wrote: > > Apple introduced a new iBook with 14.1" display yesterday. Check it > out, it's on the apple site. But it's $1799 with 700Mhz and DVD/CDRW > combo. Still quite inexpensive compared with Wintel consumer laptops. > Apple hardware is solidly built. This system looks rea

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-08 Thread Michael Nordmeyer
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 05:06, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) > > but iBooks are rather nice with long batter life and gorgeous > > screens. > > Yes, I checked them up. The screen size is only 12.1",

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff
I was just checking out the new Dell Precision M40: 7.89 lbs. Pentium III 1.2 GHz processor-M with large 512KB L2 cache ISV certified 3D OpenGL accelerated workstation graphics NVidia Quadro2 Go 256-bit, 4X AGP video chipset 32MB DDR video memory POWERdraft, QuadroView, MAXtreme workstation apple

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan
Mark Brown wrote: > > Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) but > iBooks are rather nice with long batter life and gorgeous screens. Yes, I checked them up. The screen size is only 12.1", apart from that it looks really good for the price vs the performance you get. B

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff
I was just checking out the new Dell Precision M40: 7.89 lbs. Pentium III 1.2 GHz processor-M with large 512KB L2 cache ISV certified 3D OpenGL accelerated workstation graphics NVidia Quadro2 Go 256-bit, 4X AGP video chipset 32MB DDR video memory POWERdraft, QuadroView, MAXtreme workstation appl

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan
Mark Brown wrote: > > Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) but > iBooks are rather nice with long batter life and gorgeous screens. Yes, I checked them up. The screen size is only 12.1", apart from that it looks really good for the price vs the performance you get.

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop > (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation? Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) but iBooks are rather nice wi

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530: > Hi, > > I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop > (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation? > > -- > Ramakrishnan M (http://www.hackGNU.org/) > Tex

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread kiss the sun and walk on air
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:17:25PM +, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > I like Toshiba myself. Low cost and very reliable. There's also the > IBM ones. Good prices for these in the States. Compaq can be good > as well. You might run into problems with spares for any of these ? If you choose tosh

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Serge Rey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:58:14PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Serge Rey wrote: > > > > are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before > > you travel? if the former, you might want to look for good deals on > > I am planning to buy one after reaching US. L

RE: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Oliver Andrich
Hi, I would suggest a Toshiba. I own a Satelite 3000 series and after some hints and some rethinking I got Debian up and running on it perfectly. Most problems were caused by my problems and my strange ideas about Linux and Laptops. ; Official retail is $1600, but I have seen shops in the US s

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan
Serge Rey wrote: > > are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before > you travel? if the former, you might want to look for good deals on I am planning to buy one after reaching US. Laptops are prohibitively expensive in India. > thinkpads (like an x20 or x21). i picked

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Serge Rey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop > (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation? are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before you travel? if t

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good > laptop (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation? I like Toshiba myself. Low cost and very reliable. There's also the IBM ones. Good prices for these in the States. Compaq can be good as well. You might run into p

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop > (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation? Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) but iBooks are rather nice w

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530: > Hi, > > I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop > (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation? > > -- > Ramakrishnan M (http://www.hackGNU.org/) > Te

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread kiss the sun and walk on air
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:17:25PM +, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > I like Toshiba myself. Low cost and very reliable. There's also the > IBM ones. Good prices for these in the States. Compaq can be good > as well. You might run into problems with spares for any of these ? If you choose tos

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Serge Rey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:58:14PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Serge Rey wrote: > > > > are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before > > you travel? if the former, you might want to look for good deals on > > I am planning to buy one after reaching US.

RE: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Oliver Andrich
Hi, I would suggest a Toshiba. I own a Satelite 3000 series and after some hints and some rethinking I got Debian up and running on it perfectly. Most problems were caused by my problems and my strange ideas about Linux and Laptops. ; Official retail is $1600, but I have seen shops in the US

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan
Serge Rey wrote: > > are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before > you travel? if the former, you might want to look for good deals on I am planning to buy one after reaching US. Laptops are prohibitively expensive in India. > thinkpads (like an x20 or x21). i picked

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Serge Rey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop > (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation? are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before you travel? if

Re: Laptop recommendations

2002-01-07 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good > laptop (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation? I like Toshiba myself. Low cost and very reliable. There's also the IBM ones. Good prices for these in the States. Compaq can be good as well. You might run into

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2001-03-16 Thread Heather
> Just as a warning I started by purchasing a used cheap notebook, it > was a IBM ThinkPad 760EL that I purchased from a used computer store cheap. > The problem is I got addicted to the concept of portable computer and had > to have a newer, faster, and better notebook so I now own a ThinkPad A20M

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2001-03-16 Thread Heather
> Hi, > > I'm interested in buying an old laptop and installing Debian on it. What are > people's recommendations? > > I've been looking at the Dell Latitude XPi P150 and P166. They have an > installed CD-ROM and floppy. I've also been looking at the HP Omnibook > 800CT, I think with a 150 cpu

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2001-03-16 Thread Heather
> Just as a warning I started by purchasing a used cheap notebook, it > was a IBM ThinkPad 760EL that I purchased from a used computer store cheap. > The problem is I got addicted to the concept of portable computer and had > to have a newer, faster, and better notebook so I now own a ThinkPad A20

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2001-03-16 Thread Todd V . Rovito
Just as a warning I started by purchasing a used cheap notebook, it was a IBM ThinkPad 760EL that I purchased from a used computer store cheap. The problem is I got addicted to the concept of portable computer and had to have a newer, faster, and better notebook so I now own a ThinkPad A20M. The Th

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2001-03-16 Thread Heather
> Hi, > > I'm interested in buying an old laptop and installing Debian on it. What are > people's recommendations? > > I've been looking at the Dell Latitude XPi P150 and P166. They have an > installed CD-ROM and floppy. I've also been looking at the HP Omnibook > 800CT, I think with a 150 cp

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2001-03-16 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:03PM -, Todd Kokoszka wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in buying an old laptop and installing Debian on it. What are > people's recommendations? Get something with enough RAM for what you want. Esp. older laptops sometimes use custom RAM that only works with t

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2001-03-16 Thread Todd V . Rovito
Just as a warning I started by purchasing a used cheap notebook, it was a IBM ThinkPad 760EL that I purchased from a used computer store cheap. The problem is I got addicted to the concept of portable computer and had to have a newer, faster, and better notebook so I now own a ThinkPad A20M. The T

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2001-03-16 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:03PM -, Todd Kokoszka wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in buying an old laptop and installing Debian on it. What are > people's recommendations? Get something with enough RAM for what you want. Esp. older laptops sometimes use custom RAM that only works with