I've made a mistake here. Choice recommended a Toshiba Satellite L550 (I know, but it was sent from work--I've had a chance to look at the article at home.)
Checked also with the Toshiba Home page--the L550 has been discontinued, although from the number on offer when you do some comparative shopping, you'd never guess. And I'd still like to buy one. I remember some members of SLUG trying to extract from the vendor the price of the Microsoft installation that came with the computer and that they had requested be removed, or not installed. There was much indignation at this. Is it still the case that Microsoft installation is mandatory? I'll mention also something that Choice was none too pleased about: some computers give you the choice of a 32-bit or a 64-bit version of the operating system. Fair enough, but the choice becomes permanent, because the installation you *didn't* choose is destroyed. This probably wouldn't affect Linux users. William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
