Bill wrote:
For the last couple of weeks I've been looking at laptops and naturally
want to be able to run linux on same. THe laptop is only intended for
home use - web browsing, audio and dvd playing etc.
It's amazing that whenever I visit a PC shop and see a unit that is on
display with a reasonably low price I discover that I need to add
several items and therefore more than several $$$ to get what I want,
which usually ends up taking the unit to somewhere between $1600 and $1800.
Then I see Big W and Office Works selling Acer Laptops at around $1300
or a bit less with everything I want and usually a few extras (
especially Win XP and MS Works). The prices are good, the units seem OK.
Our BigW (Lavington) had Acer Aspirons at under $1K - no inbuilt wifi
though. Mind you, they don't carry CAT5 cables when I needed some on
Sunday :(
I'm just wondering whether anybody on the SLUG mail list has had
experience with low-end Acer laptops such as these, and if so, have any
problems/gotchas occurred?
Bill
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