Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 28 Aug 2008, Raj Mathur wrote: Anyone have any experience good/bad/ugly with this machine? Any other recommendations? FWIW, just saw this announcement re: Dell laptops and desktops with Ubuntu Linux available in India: http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/28450/news.htm -- Arun

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 28 Aug 2008, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote: The TechSpecs state that it is a IntelPro 3945ABG - so should be good to go on all distributions. To be absolutely sure - you might want to use a LiveUSB to boot it up :) Can you suggest any tool that converts a CD boot iso file to an USB

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-28 Thread Subhodip Biswas
hi ! livecd-iso-to-disk ..its available in fedora please check with other distros . -- Regards Subhodip Biswas Fedora Ambassador West Bengal , India GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas

[ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Raj Mathur
Hi, After 3 stalwart years of service my IBM notebook has finally decided to give up the ghost, and I'm on the lookout for a new one. Within those 3 years I realised that my use of the notebook was intermittent at best, so don't plan to spend that much on the new box. Currently looking at

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/8/28 Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: looking at the Compaq Presario C797VU (~Rs 35K): http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en/ho/WF06b/321957-321957-3329742-89318-89318-3466274-3739779.html In a nutshell, it's a Core2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, widescreen (ugh!) 1280x800 resolution (ugh!), 160GB disk,

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 28 Aug 2008, Raj Mathur wrote: looking at the Compaq Presario C797VU (~Rs 35K): http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en/ho/WF06b/321957-321957-3329742-8 9318-89318-3466274-3739779.html Can't comment on the above model but my brother owns a 2 yr old Compaq laptop no hardware issues so

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Raj Mathur wrote: In a nutshell, it's a Core2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, widescreen (ugh!) 1280x800 resolution (ugh!), 160GB disk, standard WiFi, Ethernet, DVD writer, card reader, etc. The TechSpecs state that it is a IntelPro 3945ABG - so should be good to go on all distributions. To be absolutely

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
After 3 stalwart years of service my IBM notebook has finally decided to give up the ghost, and I'm on the lookout for a new one. Within those 3 years I realised that my use of the notebook was intermittent at best, so don't plan to spend that much on the new box. Currently looking at the

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
In particular, after the recent reorganisation of their service system, it sucks. The whole thing is not subcontracted to various companies all over Delhi. Sorry for the typo. It should have been: The whole thing is now subcontracted to various companies all over Delhi.

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread narendra sisodiya
I will also buy a laptop next month but (Dell)AMD turion 64 bit,,,it will be cheaper,, Any input?? Also,,,can i get refurbished laptops in india ?? ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd