Hey all, I've decided I need a computer that's less powerful but more portable, so I'm planning to sell my desktops [1] and buy a second hand laptop. I really want to get one roughly around the order of 700mhz, 256MB ram... but it needs to work with linux of course. Specifically, I need it to have a built in 56K v.90 modem that works with linux. USB and ethernet are fairly essential too. DVD/CDRW would be nice, but I can live without.
There are so many different models of laptop around, it's very hard to find good info on linux compatibility for a lot of them. I've tried linux-on-laptops and tuxmobil. What would folks around here recommend as good linux compatible laptops / brands? From googling around, and reading the archives, my brain is dying to jump to one assumption in particular --- "IBM Thinkpad's are good, and pretty much always work with linux". Would that be fair to say, do you think? Are there any others around that are equally worthwhile? Cheers, Gareth [1] One is an Athlon (barton) 2600, 512MB ram, 120GB hard disk, TV card, CDRW, Geforce FX5200, 17 inch AOC flatscreen CRT. The other is a Celeron 700 (running happily at 1.05GHz with a decent cooler), 256MB ram, 20GB disk, TNT2, 17 inch Philips CRT. If anyone would like to let me know what they reckon they're worth I'd much appreciate it :-) Putting them in the BSE on friday and gotta think of a price to ask. 'course I'd consider offers from this list first, saves me having to install that other OS in order to sell them ;-)
