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

matt house matthouse at dsl.pipex.com
Fri Dec 15 11:38:25 GMT 2006


lol I'll be avoiding that one then. tbh I used to have a fujitsu p5020 and
whilst it was a lovely laptop it was a pain to get working with Nix at the time
so I'll generally be avoiding fujitsu..

Quoting Dan Attwood <danattwood at googlemail.com>:

> 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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