Hi Matt,<br>I have an old Toshiba laptop you can have for £50, I think it's a Tecra 550 CDT. It has DSL on it at the moment, and would really benefit from some extra RAM.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Nathan.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 12/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:misd71@dsl.pipex.com">misd71@dsl.pipex.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:misd71@dsl.pipex.com">misd71@dsl.pipex.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
thanks Colin I shall definitely bear that model in mind.<br><br>I was under the impression that most Vaio's didn't generally play well with<br>Linux, are the older ones generally more compatible than the new ones.
<br><br>Or am I barking up the wrong tree completely?<br><br>cheers<br><br>Matt<br>(This may appear to come from a different email address namely<br><a href="mailto:misd71@dsl.pipex.com">misd71@dsl.pipex.com</a> however this is just the alias for my matthouse account,
<br>I'm at work and using netmail :P)<br><br>>Hi Matt and welcome to KLUG.<br>>I have a Sony SRX77 laptop running Ubuntu 6.06 beautifully.<br>>Everything works including the on board wireless. Infact Ubuntu runs
<br>>better than Windows from a fresh install, as Windows needs lots of<br>>drivers, but Ubuntu found everything.<br>><br>>This laptop is a 3lb P3 800Mhz, 256Mb, 20BG device with a small<br>>screen. It cost over $1300 when I got it back in 2001 so you might
<br>>find some knocking around ebay a lot cheaper. I would definately<br>>recommend one.<br>><br>>Best of luck laptop hunting<br>><br>>Colin<br>><br>><br>>On 12/14/06, Matt House <<a href="mailto:matthouse@dsl.pipex.com">
matthouse@dsl.pipex.com</a>> wrote:<br>> First of all Hi. I've been using Linux now for a few years and have only<br>> just got my bum in gear and joined the kent lug! So hello guys and gals,<br>> I hope I can be of help to some people =) I am based in Canterbury and
<br>> my names Matt.<br>><br>> I'm on a quest! that's right, a quest... I'm after a new laptop (well a<br>> second user laptop) as I really miss the portability (that and I need<br>> something to do some hacking on when I'm on lunch at work!). This is no
<br>> ordinary laptop quest though, there are several criteria.<br>><br>> a) It must be linux compatible, I don't mind some hacking but I would<br>> like it to be possible to have sound, working PCMCIA and all that jazz.
<br>> not fussed about suspend to ram or disk.<br>><br>> b) It must be small, I'm thinking 12" screen or under. I'm a big girls<br>> blouse when it comes to carrying things and I really don't want to have
<br>> to lug a behemoth with me everywhere I go =P<br>><br>> c) It must be cheap! I'm not looking at spending much more than about<br>> £50, which isn't much. However I know a few people who have managed to
<br>> pick up some pretty nice P2's or low end P3's for that price, the last<br>> laptop I had was an old thinkpad X21 (p3 700MHz, 20Gb, 256Mb) and I<br>> managed to nab that off ebay for just over £100 so I think it's possible.
<br>><br>> I'm not after anything powerful (not on that budget anyway) I'm thinking<br>> of running zenwalk linux, with fluxbox. and the most strenuous task it's<br>> going to be doing is listening to lugradio whilst I bash out something
<br>> in gedit.<br>><br>> If anyone has an ideas or recommendations of models etc I'd be really<br>> grateful (and If anyone wants to sell me a laptop drop me a mail ;)<br>><br>> thanks for your help in advance peeps and as I've just found the forum
<br>> and the website you can expect to see a lot more of me in future.<br>><br>> thanks<br>><br>> shrimphead<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Kent mailing list
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