On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 19:52 -0400, Walt Frampus wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:16 -0600, Travis Crook wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am considering purchasing a laptop and wondered if any of you could > > give me specs on one that would be friendly to Mandriva 2005. I don't > > want to spend more than $1000.00 (US dollars) on it. I also prefer AMD > > processors, but I won't get too picky. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Travis Crook > > Visions Beyond > > > > > I am running Mandriva 2005 LE on my compaq Presario 3000 and My Averatec > 5400 Laptops with no real problems at all. Mandriva was the only Linux > distro to find all the hardware correctly and wifi was a breeze on both! > I did have to use the vesa driver on the Averatec but since I am not > playing any games on it, it doesn't matter. I had tried several distros > on both these laptops and actually had to put windows (yuck) back on the > compaq to make it usable. Now even my laptops are totally windows free! >
I have seen a couple of Averatec laptops that looked good. Have you had any problems with them? I am currently also looking at an eMachines. > Walt > Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond > > > > plain text document attachment (message.footer) > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > ____________________________________________________
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