IBM Thinkpad r50e is around 45k today (the centrino, wifi one). it works
very well with fedora core 3. if you download the fedora kernel with the
IBM acpi plugins you get all the button and special functionality plus
the software suspend (Version2) works great.

Quoting Kelsey Hartigan Go <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Dual boot Acer Travelmate 350 - pretty old 600 Mhz Pentium III
> Everything works.  except the lucnet win modem -- needed some drivers that
> tainted the kernel.  But it works.
>
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, MSL wrote:
>
> > i got NEC 400mhz celeron, i'm running minislack 1.0 on it ;^)
> >
> > Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> >
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> > >Miguel A Paraz wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Just got an Acer Travelmate 2312 WLCi from the office. Ships with RHL
> > >>9, no Windows tax paid :)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >How much? The IBM R350e was an incredible steal at 40k (we got it around
> > >38k less VAT), Intel Celeron M, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, DVD Combo drive and
> > >it even had wlan! I didn't expect the combo drive at all. Slackware and
> > >Ubuntu just ran everything (except the modem) out of the box. And its an
> > >IBM! Very sturdy casing, nice spartan black color.
> > >
> > >Jerome
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