Word of warning: The optical drives in Acer laptops are notorious for failure. Mine went within 3 months (brand new), as did my brothers (also brand new).
On 8/12/07, Dick Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- > Dick - an old mainframer trying to get current. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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