[Deaf-lug] Laptops

[JGJones]

If you're not travelling much with it, then just get that cheap one you 
mentioned - its main advantage over the subnotebooks such as MSI Wind 
etc is a higher screen resolution and larger 15" screen. Plus the CPU 
have more grunts in it. The only unknown is the wireless - I have no 
idea if it would work or not.

My experience is probably a lucky one - every laptop I've used all had 
wireless working out of the box with Ubuntu, from cheap crap to the high 
end ones - most of them are Dell's though.

However I did mention this - http://dell.co.uk/ubuntu - you can get a 
laptop WITHOUT Windows for £300. Get it with Ubuntu pre-installed, vote 
with your wallet for less Windows :)

Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> ARGGGH
> 
> Just what I need!!!
> 
> I am not going for small laptops as I wont be travelling anywhere with
> it, except to a local lug.
> I want to use it to replace my PC.
> What I am pleased about is the small laptops are making ther lager
> types to drop in prices.
> 
> Still havent made my mind up yet!!
> 
> Fintan
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/7/1 Matthew Israelsohn <misraelsohn at gmail.com>:
>> Fintan, don't look at this page then:
>> http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/over-past-six-months-or-so-asus-everex_24.html
>>
>> To be honest, I love my eeePC 700 & 900 (not 901, my mistake) as they
>> are very small & light.  If I wanted one feature to be improved, it'd
>> be the keyboard.  No one device is 100% perfect as we all know.
>>
>> Does anyone remember the Psion 5MX?  That had one of the best
>> mini-keyboards I've ever used.
>>
>> The eeePC's stock OS is a highly tweaked Xandros although as
>> previously mentioned, you can use other OS's too e.g:
>>
>> DebianEeePC: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
>> eeebuntu: http://www.eeebuntu.org/
>>
>> I had considered ordering the MSI Wind although I'm going to wait as
>> there are just so many interesting releases over the next few months.
>>
>> My "distraction of the moment" is installing OS X on a Dell D630 i.e.
>> setting up a Hackintosh so I can then install Apple's iPhone
>> development toolset etc.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Fintan Gaughan <fgaughan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> arrrghhh,
>>>
>>> too many choices!!!
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