On Thu February 1 2007 08:31, Tim Wescott wrote: > I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying > for Windows. > > After looking around the web and asking locally, I've found two sources > of laptops that come new with Linux loaded. One is Linux Certified, the > other Emperor Linux. Linux Certified has name-brand laptops (Lenovo) at > very attractive prices. Emperor Linux has rebranded laptops at premium > prices, but they come very highly recommended.
I must have a look and see what those are all about. > Does anyone have any mileage with either of these vendors? > > Does anyone have any recommendations on a distro to use? I've got Etch > on this machine, and I'm mostly happy with it. At this point I'd like > to stick with something that has similar administration issues, but if > there's a distro that's clearly better for laptops I'll go with that. > > Does anyone have any recent experience, either good or bad, with any > specific laptops? Should push come to shove I may just put the Fry's > website up against the listings in linux-laptop.org and find a good > match, but I'm enough of a newbie that I'd like to buy from someone > who's put some effort into the selection, first. I bought an hp pavilion second hand last year, not that I was really in the market for a laptop but the price was right. The unit is 3 or 4 years old now but still like new. It has an Athlon k7 running at 1.7 Ghz and 768 megs of ram and an ati video card (previous owner was a gamer). It came with a windows install disk but I immediately installed sarge on it and I haven't looked back. A little to the left of where you were looking but that's my experience.. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
