Well, I am thinking of this thing mainly as an mp3 player. I can imagine using it on the road as a word processor (vi). So, I was thinking about looking for an el cheapo, maybe a used one which might go for only a few hundred. My major concern is linux compatibility. I can imagine all sorts of problems with built in sound cards, for example.
Joel On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:08:35PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:16:11PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > >I would like to get an old laptop so I can play mp3's anywhere I want (in the > >office catching up on weekends, like right now, in the car on those long trips, >etc.) I wouldn't need to run kde. Any suggestions for an old laptop > >that would easily install Caldera 2.4 or Redhat 7.1 and play mp3's? > >It just needs a sound card, about 10 gigs hd, an NIC, and a fast enuf cpu, > >I think. > > Joel: > > How cheap is cheap? I've gotten new IBM A20s for about a grand which work > great with Linux. I swear by the IBM ThinkPads as much because of great > warranty support from IBM as for their overall quality and reliability. > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > > Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that > they are victims. -- Thomas Sowell _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
