[Klug-general] Hi All, greetings and a laptp enquiry

[Colin_The_Technician]

Hi Matt and welcome to KLUG.
I have a Sony SRX77 laptop running Ubuntu 6.06 beautifully.
Everything works including the on board wireless. Infact Ubuntu runs
better than Windows from a fresh install, as Windows needs lots of
drivers, but Ubuntu found everything.

This laptop is a 3lb P3 800Mhz, 256Mb, 20BG device with a small
screen.  It cost over $1300 when I got it back in 2001 so you might
find some knocking around ebay a lot cheaper.  I would definately
recommend one.

Best of luck laptop hunting

Colin


On 12/14/06, Matt House <matthouse at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> First of all Hi. I've been using Linux now for a few years and have only
> just got my bum in gear and joined the kent lug! So hello guys and gals,
> I hope I can be of help to some people =) I am based in Canterbury and
> my names Matt.
>
> I'm on a quest! that's right, a quest... I'm after a new laptop (well a
> second user laptop) as I really miss the portability (that and I need
> something to do some hacking on when I'm on lunch at work!). This is no
> ordinary laptop quest though, there are several criteria.
>
> a) It must be linux compatible, I don't mind some hacking but I would
> like it to be possible to have sound, working PCMCIA and all that jazz.
> not fussed about suspend to ram or disk.
>
> b) It must be small, I'm thinking 12" screen or under. I'm a big girls
> blouse when it comes to carrying things and I really don't want to have
> to lug a behemoth with me everywhere I go =P
>
> c) It must be cheap! I'm not looking at spending much more than about
> £50, which isn't much.  However I know a few people who have managed to
> pick up some pretty nice P2's or low end P3's for that price, the last
> laptop I had was an old thinkpad X21 (p3 700MHz, 20Gb, 256Mb) and I
> managed to nab that off ebay for just over £100 so I think it's possible.
>
> I'm not after anything powerful (not on that budget anyway) I'm thinking
> of running zenwalk linux, with fluxbox. and the most strenuous task it's
> going to be doing is listening to lugradio whilst I bash out something
> in gedit.
>
> If anyone has an ideas or recommendations of models etc I'd be really
> grateful (and If anyone wants to sell me a laptop drop me a mail ;)
>
> thanks for your help in advance peeps and as I've just found the forum
> and the website you can expect to see a lot more of me in future.
>
> thanks
>
> shrimphead
>
>
>
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