<a href="http://pricewatch.com">pricewatch.com</a> ...it's handy just for getting a gauge on the prices of things. as can be google's shopping search.<br><a href="http://ebay.co.uk">ebay.co.uk</a> it's obvious though right?<br>
<a href="http://emperorlinux.com">emperorlinux.com</a> linux laptops! i think they do slackware among their selection. their kernels they ship are enhanced in house for laptops.<br><a href="http://www.linux-laptop.net/">http://www.linux-laptop.net/</a> a site i just found. might be of help. (?)<br>
<br><br>i have just recently completed doing some laptop shopping myself, having been looking around for a few weeks.<br>being an artist, i have gone for an ibm/lenovo x60 thinkpad ... the tablet version.<br>i bought it cheap of ebay (just over £600), rather than full price(+) from emperor to get the linux os fully kitted out for use with the specific hardware's features. which i may still get somehow... if emperor would get back to me.<br>
<br>you can get amazing hardware for less than £500 these days.<br><br><br>the basic jist i got from forums i searched was that ibm, dell and corporate compaq laptops were considered of the best quality, toshiba and consumer marketed compaq laptops were to be avoided, and there were mixed but generally positive opinions on asus and others.<br>
<br><br>all the best.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/15 Johnı <<a href="mailto:seago.john@googlemail.com">seago.john@googlemail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My Daughter has moved into a cottage of her own, tomorrow the phone will be<br>
connected, and as last Thursday was her birthday I have offered to buy her<br>
a laptop and router, (this latter dependent on broadband being available<br>
in her village outside Inverness.<br>
<br>
The minimum specs need to be minimum 14" screen, DVD drive, mains electic<br>
input via whatever thingy that needs, and a socket she can plug a mouse<br>
into as she doesn't like touchpads. I need to be able to get Linux to run<br>
on it, preferably Slackware 12.1, if the hard drive's big enough I'd like<br>
to get it to dual boot, (which seems from what I've heard to preclude<br>
Vista), although I may need help with that as I ditched Microsoft<br>
completely and have used Slackware exclusively since version 7. Hence the<br>
reason for it being capable of running some form of Linux as I can<br>
probably fix minor glitches by with Microsoft, I be as t eh mercy of<br>
some 'tech help' somewhere. I'll also need a non-wireless route, (which<br>
seem to be a dying breed), and I'd really like the lot to come to about<br>
£500·00, but we can go higher for better quality, all suggestions welcome.<br>
--<br>
John Seago<br>
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