Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, SAMUEL JOSE PEREIRA CARNEIRO MACDOWELL wrote: Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:32:57 -0300 (BRT) From: SAMUEL JOSE PEREIRA CARNEIRO MACDOWELL To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:51:47 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: ... > So, I am stick with my NX5000, with a Celeron and 2GB RAM, and, my > desktop with (from memory) an AMD K7 and 2GB RAM, and frequent crashes > (every day or so), due to running out of memory, due to web browsers > (the Mozilla ba

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So, it appears that, in Western Australia, neither laptop computers, nor > desktop computers, are available, that are new, that are compatible with > Linux, and that are reasonably priced (under 1100 AUD), and that can do what > I want (including 1240x1024 graphics resolution). Don't about Weste

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Robert Goley
I would agree that many are support now. I have had a lot of luck with Toshiba. They seem to have more models that have compliant components. If you want a serious development laptop, Look at the X505 series. I ordered one with a quad core i7 series with hyperthreading 6 GB ram, 64 GB solid

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:51:47 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: ... So, I am stick with my NX5000, with a Celeron and 2GB RAM, and, my desktop with (from memory) an AMD K7 and 2GB RAM, and frequent crashes (every day or so), due to running out of memory, due t

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:11:10 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: ... > In the meantime, what is IW? Iceweasel. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Nikolay Bitsadze
Same for Toshiba Satellite A200 Series. I own A200 1GH. Everything runs out of the box. Did not check out modem though :) В Срд, 17/02/2010 в 17:00 -0500, Robert Goley пишет: > I would agree that many are support now. I have had a lot of luck with > Toshiba. They seem to have more models that ha