[dundee] Linux Laptop

[R J Ladyman]

Well, Lenovo's are pretty good and I've never had any problems with them, with 
either wireless or display.

As far as routers go, Trust make pretty good ones (and not a bad price 
either).

On Sunday 15 June 2008 19:10:11 John¹ wrote:
> My Daughter has moved into a cottage of her own, tomorrow the phone will be 
> connected, and as last Thursday was her birthday I have offered to buy her 
> a laptop and router, (this latter dependent on broadband being available 
> in her village outside Inverness.
> 
> The minimum specs need to be minimum 14" screen, DVD drive, mains electic 
> input via whatever thingy that needs, and a socket she can plug a mouse 
> into as she doesn't like touchpads. I need to be able to get Linux to run 
> on it, preferably Slackware 12.1, if the hard drive's big enough I'd like 
> to get it to dual boot, (which seems from what I've heard to preclude 
> Vista), although I may need help with that as I ditched Microsoft 
> completely and have used Slackware exclusively since version 7. Hence the 
> reason for it being capable of running some form of Linux as I can 
> probably fix minor glitches by with Microsoft, I be as t eh mercy of 
> some 'tech help' somewhere.  I'll also need a non-wireless route, (which 
> seem to be a dying breed), and I'd really like the lot to come to about 
> £500·00, but we can go higher for better quality, all suggestions welcome.
> -- 
> John Seago
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