[Nottingham] laptop for linux - suggestions

[Bunter Matthew]

>I have some money to spend on a laptop computer (about 1 grand), and =
of course I=20
>want to run our favourite OS on it instead of that glass thingy =
(grin).

>Any suggestions as to appropriate make/model would be appreciated.

My humble opinion is that IBM laptops make a good choice. The parts =
last for ages and the greatest plus is that they support Linux on their =
hardware.=20

I'm not sure what you would get for =A31K but there is a good =
website/webring for linux on Thinkpads as well as the linux-on-laptops =
site.

Matt

(Using Libranet 2.8 on an IBM TP 570E since last night - and have =
installed RH6.2, RH7.3, RH8, RH9, Suse 7.1, Mandrake 8.2 and Debian 2.2 =
on it in the past)