Hi, I picked up an Acer 5580 (Core2 duo 5500) at Future Shop 3 months ago. I didn't avoid the MS tax - but wound up with something pretty close to your desktop setup. If I ever need to use MS/Vista, I'll just swap the HDD back and I should be good to go. My memory says it was $900 + GST.
It's my light-duty laptop (only one airplane ride so far). I bumped it to 2GB of RAM and a new HDD which I installed Feisty/64bit on. The good: Pretty much everything works: sound, SD Card reader, 802.11a/b/g. The only thing I haven't tried is the modem, and I probably never will. The bad: I haven't installed the 32bit compatibility libraries on it so two common apps won't run: Flash & Skype. Flash is mostly for ad's so I don't care but it'd be nice to have a 64bit version of Skype. The questionable: The external VGA connection on it is a little weird too - I think it works but need to play with it again as there were technical difficulties the the projector the last time. Just one option for you. Cheers, J.J. PS: Heavy duty laptop is a ThinkPad and I can't count the miles I've got on that. On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 11:16 -0600, Dick Angus wrote: > I am in the market for a laptop. I don't need a super heavy duty machine as > it > is just for travel on vacation. Watching the occasional DVD, playing some mp3 > music, storing photos, burning a DVD-RW to hold photos, WiFi to the Internet > for access to e-mail. Stuff like that. > > My desktop machine is Kubuntu 7.04 (it's an Intel duo 64, but I'm running 32 > bit as 64 bit support doesn't seem to be that robust as yet) and I'd like to > match that for ease of use. Most of all I don't want to pay any Redmond > taxes. > > I looked at Dell Canada and didn't see the Linux boxes they sell in the US. I > also didn't see an option to leave of the M$ "stuff." Any suggestions would > be greatly appreciated - I'd even consider a solid refurbished machine. > > > TIA _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
