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I will post my experience with stealitback.com as soon as i get my laptop in... they have cheap stuff. check em out. --mat On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:10, John Hebert wrote: > BRLUGgers: Help a budding geek to find a cheap, used laptop to use with > Linux. Anybody know of an old working laptop that needs a good home? >=20 >=20 > Togopher, >=20 > I can only recommend what I know from past experience. The best laptop > brands are IBM, Dell, Compaq and Toshiba, in that order. It is possible t= hat > other manufacturers make good laptops as well, but parts for laptops othe= r > than big brands like these are hard to find. You can find old laptops fro= m > these manufacturers on Ebay and other places on the web. >=20 > Search on Ebay for IBM laptops sorted by price ($ to $$$): > http://listings.ebay.com/pool2/plistings/lowest/all/category31551/index.h= tml > ?from=3DR0 >=20 > And you really need to take a look at: > http://www.linux-laptop.net >=20 > Nice site, organized by manufacturer. When you find an ideal candidate fo= r a > laptop, check out this site to see how Linux works with it. >=20 > I recommend that you ask for more opinions on the [email protected] maili= ng > list once you find some specific laptop models. It is difficult to answer > specifically for open ended questions like "what do you recommend?". My o= nly > answer is that there are many laptops out there that would suit you. It > might be easier to answer if I knew what you wish to do with a laptop. A > good rule of thumb is that more CPU intensive apps will drive up the cost= of > your laptop. So, text mode/command line interface Linux will be very chea= p. > More memory and larger laptop hard drives will cost more $$$ as well. >=20 > Good luck! >=20 > John Hebert >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 7/15/03 12:38 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] The Perk's meeting. Can I borrow a laptop? >=20 > Hey, >=20 > Your idea sounds great! I will start saving. I might even save enought > to get a $40 one. But I have never had a laptop before, so I would like > some suggestion on exactly what to get (Brand, Screen, etc.). >=20 > Thank you very much, >=20 > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --=-lahMLDecFo3eL658/WO1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/FEYxadbUG229XJoRAjHLAJ9vMG+iNKq0zbh0ReRZ+zKkg/sSIgCggusN w6o3j0lfT0Z2n3lr71myhfg= =kJ3m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lahMLDecFo3eL658/WO1--
