I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 which I put a Debian based distro(not Ubuntu :P) on and it runs really well. Good hardware support and stuff. Only complaint is the memory card reader not reading xD cards(because of the driver). It was just under £500 and is a year old now so the same spec as this is probably much cheaper now. (it's an intel centrino duo @ 1.7GHz, 1GB RAM, 128MB Nvidia geforce7300 and a 120GB hard drive)<br>
<br>As for routers I have no idea I'm afraid. I've been recocmmended Belkin in the past and we have a Linksys which is pretty decent.<br><br>:)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/16 R J Ladyman <<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, Lenovo's are pretty good and I've never had any problems with them, with<br>
either wireless or display.<br>
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As far as routers go, Trust make pretty good ones (and not a bad price<br>
either).<br>
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On Sunday 15 June 2008 19:10:11 Johnı wrote:<br>
> 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>
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