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

[misd71 at dsl.pipex.com]

cheers for the offer nathan but it looks like a mate of mine is selling me his
portege 7020ct for the same price so providing he decides to let me have it I'm
sorted now :D

Looking forward to being able to zen it up a notch :D

cheers

Matt

Quoting Nathan Friend <nathan.friend at gmail.com>:

> 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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