[NBLUG/talk] Linux on Laptops

[Nat W]

Dell Laptops tend to work well, but just about any laptop will work. For
playing movies I use Xine under gnome and it works wonderfully with my dell
2500. That only has 256mb of ram and a 700mhz p3 and though every once in
awhile it's a little slow it works great. 

- Nat W

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
Cynthia M. Tracy
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 7:13 Pm
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Linux on Laptops

Hi,

I'm kicking around getting a laptop to dual boot Linux and Window$. I'm
looking at the IBM thinkpads, which I've heard are great with Linux, and
the Dell Inspirion 1150. I'm curious if anyone has tried Linux on the
Inspirion 1150... Linux on Laptops only has info on the 1100. Anybody
know if there's any major differences?

While I'm at it, are there other brands I should be looking at? I'm
willing to fiddle with a machine to get Linux to work on it, but I want
to know before I buy it that I will eventually get everything to work.
:-)

Also, how much memory will I need to comfortably run the latest version
of KDE? How about for playing DVD movies (either under Windoze or Linux)?
(I don't expect to do a lot of that, but if I get a DVD drive in it
someone in the family will probably want to "borrow" it...)

If anyone wants details, I primarily want to do programming, Internet and
maybe play arcade games (yay frozen-bubble!) on the machine. I'm aiming
for at least 1GHz, under $1000, with an internal modem, NIC, and CD-RW
(DVD is optional).

TIA,
William

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