Its biggest deficiencies are battery life, and the lack of pcmcia. The latter cuts you off from most of the better priced lappie peripherals like wireless etc.
also doing these peripherals via a usb is, IMHO, a recipe for disaster. pcmcia is neatly almost entirely inside the case. usb dongles off the back and is likely to get bumped, possibly damaging your motherboard. and some usb peripheral hanging off the back of ya lappie is just a PITA! Again, IMHO, one of those acers even with ms tax, is better value for money. If you have no more than $1500, you could probably pick up something worthwhile from trademe. On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:20:55 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Re: OT - laptop advice > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:03 > From: Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:34, Vik Olliver wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:39, Nick Rout wrote: > > > odd, maybe i was misinformed about acer linux compatibility. the only > > > entry for a 230 on the linux-laptops website just said the network > > > "worked". > > > > Isn't the $1,600 OS-free Dick Smith laptop an Acer? > > It's actually NZ$1499 incl GST and appears to be an ECS A531. DSE claim that > everything except 3D video accelleration works under Linux. It looks like a > pretty good buy to me. More than anything I suppose it all depends if you > fancy a Transmeta CPU or not. > > http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/4060ad3b0a39cc082740c0a87f9906c1/ > Product/View/XC3394 > > PriceSpy:- http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_3444.html > Says that Ascent Technology has them at $1431.79 > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
