On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Akbar Pasha wrote:
> > but as i said, i am a consultant and i move a lot. so i am planning to
> > buy a laptop. even though i earn good money,
> > but given the conditions now i cant spend more than 500$ on it(no, i
> > cant wait too). i checked many sites, and came to conclusion that i
> > should be buying a used laptop. but all those models run on pentium MMX,
> > with 32 mb ram and 8 gig HDD(i mean the ones that are within $600 price
> > range). i was just wondering whether that would be sufficient to run
> > RH7?? will it not be too slow? what features should i look in for a
> > laptop that i want to run linux on?
> >
> > thanx in advance.
> >
> > akbar
> >
> >
> One little consideration: if it has a builtin modem, and you caare
> whether that works with linux extra care is needed. I think "hsp"
> modems "winmodems" are fairly common in laptops, and there are just
> starting to be linux drivers for a few of these. Mostly, a winmodem
> makes a pretty fair doorstop, but it may be pretty hard to find a real
> modem built in to a laptop. I think this is still a good site for
> guidance:
>
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
I very good suggestion Lawson, i should have mentioned it, i wrote a reply mail
only yesterday about this very subject.
Here in Eu, more and more laptops have a Lucent mini pci modem, it works fairly
well under linux even tho' it is not a real modem.
>
>
> Lawson
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Regards Richard
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