Personally, I use an MSI Mega Book S270 (AMD Turion64, ATI Radeon Express, 1 GB RAM, LAN/WIFI/BT/Modem, 3 USB ports, 1280x800 screen, 4lbs). Everything works, except card reader (i've tried Mepis/Ubuntu and FC6 on it). Although Fedora needs to download and install a lot of closed source stuff.
On 5/2/07, GOvvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Or shop around and bring a liveCD of your favorite distro with you. On 5/2/07, fooler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elijah Alcantara" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:17 PM > Subject: [plug] Compatible budget laptops today? > > > > I'm in a budget right now so I'm looking for a laptop within the > > 25-35k range, but preferably within 25-30k. I've been checking out > > pccorner's site and found a few laptops with linux (linpus, first time > > I've heard of this) pre-installed on it. Anyone ever tried these > > laptops? Most of these are Acer. > > > > I also found out from them that NEO is also a good choice if I want to > > > run Ubuntu from it but I'm not really sure if that brand is good... > > > > My boss owns an ECS that works with Ubuntu Feisty , everything else > > works out of the box except for the sound. > > > > Can anyone here suggest other laptops that are fully working with > linux? > > your logical thing to do is find your desired hardware within your > budget... > download its manual... look at the distribution or the kernel if its > hardware was supported by it.... if not... go to the hardware website if > there is a linux driver for that.... > > fooler. > > _________________________________________________ > 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 > _________________________________________________ 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
-- Regards, Danny Ching
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