[NBLUG/talk] Looking for a Laptop

Dave Sisley dsisley at arczip.com
Thu Jan 22 13:26:02 PST 2004


On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:52:37AM -0800, Scott Doty wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:15:51PM -0800, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 21:11, Bob Wachtel wrote:
> > > Generally I use an old Win95 laptop to SSH to a server, but now it's time
> > > to get a labtop running Linux. Tuesday's meeting gave me some ideas. Any
> > > laptop a few waves back from the leading edge would suit my needs.
> > 
> > I like the IBM ThinkPads as well.  I've run Debian or RedHat on the T20,
> > A22m, and R31.  My wife won't let me close enough to her X30 to try it.
> 
> Thanks guys for the laptop suggestions.
> 
> My only beef with the thinkpads is the bundling of Windoze on the
> machines...
> 
>  -Scott
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Hey - nobody says you have to keep wind'ohs on it!  I got a new G40,
booted XP once to make sure the screen worked, basically, and then
gleefully wiped it out with SuSE.

Good luck with your search.

-dave



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