On Monday 24 October 2005 19:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > HP Pavilion? > > 0. Which of these are easily available in Kolkata? > I want to assemble one. > 1. Processor: Is there much variability between brands on this > count? What's a good laptop processor? > Depends on what you want to do ? If you do not want to do any heavy duty computation, then it is better to use VIAC7 . > 2. Display: does Linux work smoothly with something like the > wide-screen Compaqs? > No problems AFAIK > 3. Weight: if you're traveling a lot, it's probably important > for the laptop to be light-weight. No, otherwise you will get fat. > 4. Robustness (will it take some knocking about?), reliability, > service, etc.? Most brands are ok on that. > Also, I assume one can request one's own configuration regarding > amount of RAM, whether it has a DVD writer, etc.? No there are limitations on that.
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