[Gloucs] Laptop Suggestions

[Sean Keeney]

I bought an Atheros based WLAN replacement for my MSI Wind. Cost £15 on
ebay, easy to fit and works like a charm. I don't think it'd void your Dell
warranty either (it's not caused me problems before)

2009/3/16 Barbie <barbie at missbarbell.co.uk>

> Firstly, many thanks for all your suggestions. I have a plenty of
> browsing to do over the next few days :)
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:50:54AM -0000, Anthony Edward Cooper wrote:
> >
> > I have, so far, been very please with the results etc... But with the
> drop
> > in prices recently I suspect you may be better off buying new...
>
> I've noticed this. Even on eBay second-hand are going for more than new!
> But then again that's eBay all over. An R61 similar to what I was after,
> but with less HDD capacity and slower CPU was attempting to be sold for
> more than £600.
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:18:45AM +0000, John Kilgour wrote:
> > Try looking at www.dabs.com. This has quite a good search facility and
> shows
> > the Toshiba L300 series ticks all your boxes.
>
> Never thought to try Dabs, I've usually only bought parts from them.
> Thanks for the tip :)
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:26:15AM +0000, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> >
> > Dell, despite being a faceless mega-corp, ...
>
> Dell were one of the first I looked at as they usually have quite a nice
> selection of upgrades. My other half has the Inspiron 1501, and while
> not a bad laptop, the graphics card can't handle a large resolution and
> as you note they use the Broadcom wireless. The latter I would never
> touch with a bargepole ever again. Broadcom is possibly the worse
> chipset I've ever had to deal with. It continually drops the connection
> (even on Windows too), and despite buying a second internal card, we're
> still getting the same problems.
>
> > On the downside, they come with Broadcom wireless (both WiFi and
> > Bluetooth are Broadcom, IIRC). Handling this in Ubuntu is a simple
> > case of enabling restricted drivers, done in two clicks and an "are
> > you sure".
>
> If only it was that easy :) I might bring my missus laptop along
> tomorrow and see whether I've missed something complete obvious though
> :)
>
> > I hate to support large corporations over the small guys, but Dell
> > seem to be doing all the right things.
>
> Generally I would agree, but until they ditch Broadcom from their
> products, I'm not eager to jump through even more hoops.
>
> Cheers,
> Barbie.
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