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

[Dan Attwood]

i've got a fujistsu stylistic 3400. but it's a pile of pants so i
would't get one of those.
I reakon ebay is your best bet and maybe osmething lie damm small linux or slax.

Dan

On 14/12/06, Colin_The_Technician <binarysignal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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