You can get Acers at Villman for under 30k pre-loaded with Linux.
Calen On 5/2/07, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Mhac Janapin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have abused a HP Compaq Presario V2000 with PCLinuxOS 2007 and it > works real nice, especially the Beryl 3D. But it has issues with > Ubuntu. It would boot OK, but hangs during Gnome startup. So I have to > find a way to get around that BUG in order to install Ubuntu. ;-P It' > about 34k when we bought it. No built-in WiFi though. Currently, one of the work laptops is an Acer Aspire 5570; apparently, my boss was able to get it *without* Windows (it had a minor-league Linux distro installed though, which we wiped out in favor of Ubuntu). The machine's a Core Solo 1.8GHz, Centrino (so all Intel). The only kinda sore points (if you're of the "my system must run on purely free software" bent) is the built-in WiFi card which must use a binary microcode blob and a binary-only daemon. Other than that, the whole thing works out of the box. (Haven't tried the SD card reader built into the laptop though, so I might be wrong) -- JM Ibanez Software Architect Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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