Warehouse Stationery has the Toshiba A10 Satellite for $1700ish +GST Its legacy free with one PCMCIA slot, 30 Gb drive, 256 Mb ram (shared) etc
Theres a miniPCI wireless option, but I don't know about price or linux support. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 7:03 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT - laptop advice I have heard Acer's have reasonable linux capability, and there are some around the $2k mark (but they may only have 256M RAM at that price. The latest NZ PC World has a comparison of under $2.5k laptops. good sites for compatibilty reports is http://www.linux-laptop.net and http://www.tuxmobil.org . On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:48, anton wrote: > Hi, > As we are shortly going overseas we want to get a laptop. I have > searched around for a bit now and have found some places that look > like they might not be so bad. We want to spend under $2000, and the > only real stipulation is that the processor is over 2k and there is > 512meg of RAM. I am never going to have a machine with less than 512 > again! Any help or advice here would be greatly appreciated. > > I have heard plenty about making sure that linux will run on these > things before buying. Is that still necessary with the latest ones? If > I find mention of someone installing on the same model on the 'net, > should I trust it? (seeing as there are two 'net places I'm looking at > buying from)? What are the things that just MUST be on the thing? In > terms of slots and what have you...? Showing my knowledge here... Do > all modern laptops have PCMCIA slots? Is that why they aren't > mentioned on most ads? > > Anything else? > > A little closer to home here, for those who might know - ITS > canterbury uni have laptops with the above specs for around $1900, and > they appear to be OSless (or with some campus agreement M$ deal). > There seems to be something about CTA mentioned there - does that mean > that only CTA students/staff (which I am) can get them? How do they > stack up in terms of slots/compatibility? Anyone don't a linux install > on one? I would prefer to give Canty money if I could! > > Thanks for any suggestions > Anton
