On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, C Falconer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:14, Brad Beveridge wrote: > > I'm soon to be in the market for a laptop of the brand-new variety. Of course, it > > must be linux compatible. My budget is <= $3000 total cost (ie, inc GST). > > I'm looking at the Compaq n800c, does anybody know how well this one fares > > (reports on the net are sketchy) > > Any other suggestions for laptops that may fit my bill? > > I dunno about linuxibility but noel leemings had a HP laptop for $2000 > in their last catalog... > > > Celeron 2.0 GHz, 256 mb ram, 30 Gb drive, CDRW/DVD drive etc.
Isn't the processor speed of modern laptops just getting silly. I mean if I had the money to buy a laptop (job(s) please :-) ) anything over about 700MHz would be fine as long as the video had good Xv support, but they all seem to be more like 2GHz these days. <rant> At work (very part time) we are looking at replacing up to 50 desktop computers and around the 700MHz speed would be plenty but about the slowest mainstream CPUs you can get are 1.1GHz/1.3GHz. Same with disk space. Networked computers, not used for DV work or storing large divx or MP3 collections so a 20gig+ HDD is just silly. Heck the Ghost image with Windows 2000, MS Office XP, MS VB something, Netware Client etc fits on 3 CDs (IIRC, it's usually just done over the network). </rant> Oh, and back on topic the Toshiba laptops that the secondary school teachers got in the STELA deal seem to work OK with Linux. NVIDIA video, not some silly SiS non-linux rubbish. Have to add something to the X config though so the keyboard works properly. Might be on the limit of your price range though. Andrew Gordon -- http://hhs.gordons.gen.nz/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Outside temperature is approx. 6.5 degrees C Uptime: 179:14:45 (Days:Hours:Minutes) 0.34, 0.44, 0.45 Loadavg 120 Tasks loaded, 3 in Running State
