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

Nathan Friend nathan.friend at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 10:50:56 GMT 2006


Hi Matt,
I have an old Toshiba laptop you can have for £50, I think it's a Tecra 550
CDT.  It has DSL on it at the moment, and would really benefit from some
extra RAM.

Cheers,

Nathan.

On 12/15/06, misd71 at dsl.pipex.com <misd71 at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> thanks Colin I shall definitely bear that model in mind.
>
> I was under the impression that most Vaio's didn't generally play well
> with
> Linux, are the older ones generally more compatible than the new ones.
>
> Or am I barking up the wrong tree completely?
>
> cheers
>
> Matt
> (This may appear to come from a different email address namely
> misd71 at dsl.pipex.com however this is just the alias for my matthouse
> account,
> I'm at work and using netmail :P)
>
> >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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