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<div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:16px;">On 05/12/11 23:37,
John G Walker wrote:
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<pre wrap="">My years-old Thinkpad has died on me, so I need a new laptop. I only
use the laptop for word-processing, spreadsheets and web browsing, so I
don't need anything sophisticated.
What are the current suggestions for laptops running Linux?
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<font face="Verdana">John,<br>
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This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but I recently
bought my wife an Acer Travelmate 5742. It came with Win 7
installed but that was nothing that an install of Ubuntu 11.10
couldn't put right. It found everything first time, including
wireless.<br>
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HTH<br>
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Bob Giles<br>
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