[dundee] Linux Laptop

[christopher wyllie]

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)

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.

:)

2008/6/16 R J Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>:

> 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.
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