Justin -
It's not an ultra-slim, but I am running a Dell Lattitude CP p233 and it
is a champ. X works perfectly (a huge problem on my last two latops), the
3com pcmcia NIC works great, the Xircom modem is solid, I have no
complaints. It is a fairly light laptop, too. I used top carry an old
Compaq 486, and then a Toshiba Sattellite p166, and both were back
breakers. The Dell is really nice, and you can get them here in town at
the Dell Factory Outlet at a pretty good price (I think this one was $1700
about 8 months ago).
Anyway, just my two cents worth.
TC
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Justin Ryan wrote:
> guys in the next couple of days I'm going to be buying a laptop, probably
> a sony VAIO.. the two choices I'm looking at now are the 505, a very
> small, slim model with a 10.4" screen, 300Mhz, 64mb ram, 6.4GB drive,
> etc.. etc.. orrr a larger, still slim model with similar stats but a
> bigger screen, included ethernet, and several other nice options, the
> difference is about $500.. it's also only about $130 to upgrade from 64 to
> 128mb of ram.. does anyone have experience with this more expensive VAIO?
> I forget exactly what model it is, there's a Z in there somewhere ;p I'm
> most concerned with being sure the ethernet and modem work in linux,
> espescially the ethernet because I'm not buying a cdrom for it right away
> and will be installing linux via FTP..
>
> if any of you guys know of another really good deal on a $2000-$2500 or
> even less notebook for linux, I'd be glad to hear it.. I wanted something
> that was not too bulky, but I'm not insistent on an ultrathin, I just
> really want one :)
>
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