On Mon, 03 May 2004 13:17:09 +1200
Hamish McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >The OS free laptop I saw in The Palms branch of DSE was running knoppix.
> >Looked good too. Gave me quite a surprise as i was wandering around the
> >store typing "deltree c:/" into the winboxes, ooops i mean admiring the
> >hardware :-)
> >
> You beat me to it. I spotted one of those in the Papanui branch, fired up
> Konsole and interogated the hardware. lspci, lsmod, cat /proc/cpuinfo etc.
> Sales staff didn't know a lot about it, but I was amused to see a pile on
> Microsoft propoganda next to the laptop saying, "When you buy a computer,
> it's what's on the inside that counts"
> 
> Good price and a nice laptop too, almost tempted to pick on up for the
> other half

my pet peeve with them is no pcmcia. bummer.

> 
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