CTX has some roll-your-own notebooks sans op system or available with Win98
which fit that budget. They use the Cyrix MediaGXM chips and have a very low
chip count compared to most (important for long-term reliability) Make sure you
get a TFT or Active matrix display for the sake of your vision. The last
serious problem I had implementing linux on a notebook was with my most prized
possession, a Panasonic CF-62. I had to play with the timing of the C&T 65555
video and I can work only in 16 bit depth at 1024x768 now. I was able to
implement 640x480 and 800x600 but neither covered the whole screen. Even though
there was a problem, it took less than two hours of experimenting with modelines
numbers to make it work smoothly.
About the worst that can happen except for the NeoMagics, is that you will have
to edit XF86Config by hand after running the X install. There are many people
who have done it and even databases of successful XFree installation Config
files out on the net.
Good luck
Civileme
Jeanette Russo wrote:
> Something around that $1800 mark would be nice. I could spend more.
> I have heard good things about The ThinkPad's. I guess Neo Magic Video
> is what you want. Just need to find out which laptops use Neo Magic Video
> chips.. Thanks
> Jeanette
