Excellent, Thanks for the lead on Ebay - seems to be a huge range of machines and prices!
Best wishes Mike RE: Re: [scottish] Laptop - Anythoughts. On Sunday 24 February 2002 17:05, you wrote: > Hi > > Ebay can be quite good for laptops. > > checkout > -http://listings.ebay.co.uk/aw/plistings/list/category16159/index.html > > > --- Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John, > > > Thanks for the good info John. I'll head over to > > www.linux-laptop.net and > > have a browse about. Yep, all the machines I am > > looking at are well over a > > year old, so I guess I should be OK. I'll also give > > USER2 a try, they have > > an Aberdeen branch I believe which would be my > > closest one. > > > > Thanks again for the Info' > > > > Best Wishes, > > > > Mike > > > > RE: Re: [scottish] Laptop - Anythoughts. > > > > On Sunday 24 February 2002 08:12, you wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Mike wrote: > > > > The ones that seem to be available are Toshiba > > > > 'Satellites' and IBM > > > > > > ThinkPads. Does anyone have anythoughts about > > > > the best one to go for > > > > > > with Linux in mind? Or does anyone know of a > > > > reliable seller of used > > > > > > machines? > > > > > > I have had good experience with USER 2 in > > > > Edinburgh -- South Clerk > > > > > St I think, just along from the cinema going > > > > toward Cameron Toll shopping > > > > > centre. (I don't have any connection with them > > > > other than as a a > > > > > satisfied customer ;-).) > > > > > > On the other hand, I haven't bought a secondhand > > > > laptop for my own > > > > > use, being fortunate enough to be able to afford a > > > > VAIO for work. I did > > > > > buy one from a friend for a project -- but I have > > > > never had time to treat > > > > > it seriously. I had no problems with Linux on it > > > > (it's a Toshiba I think, > > > > > and ridiculously heavy as were most of its > > > > generation). > > > > > Look at www.linux-laptop.net for tons of useful > > > > info and also it > > > > > is worth searching the Usenet comp.linux.* groups > > > > with Google for reports > > > > > of problems and fixes with any machine you think > > > > of buying. Most > > > > > difficulties are with X and are fixed by buying a > > > > machine that is older > > > > > than a year or so, so you ought to be OK. > > > > > > John. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > http://www.lug.org.uk > > > > http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > > > > > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk > > > > http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > http://www.lug.org.uk > > http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk > > http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ===== > Anand Kumar, coggi.net > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.coggi.net/ > phone: 07967 928551 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
