[Preston] Re: some quick questions about a linux laptop

[Matthew T. Atkinson]

'ellow,

Thanks for the info, although I have already bought one (an IBM ThinkPad
T20, 700MHz PIII, 256MB RAM, other bits).  Now I just have to make it talk
to (and file-share with) my desktop.... :S.

I was thinking of upgrading my Mandrake 9 to SuSE 8.1 as I always liked
YaST2 and find MDK's control centre to be extremely buggy.  However, I am
told that GNOME2 in SuSE is very weak (just like Red Hat's crippled version
of KDE).  Have you any opinion on this?  I need good (or better :D) GNOME2
support.

As I am 'here' I'd like to second Guy's happy holiday wishes to everyone - I
hope that none of us become like M$ Office 2000 (extremely bloated) after
the festive season.  Have a good one!

bye just now,


matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Golding" <kevingolding2001@yahoo.com>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 1:04 PM
Subject: [Preston] Re: some quick questions about a linux laptop


Hi There

This is a belated response to Matthew Atkinsons
questions in November about Linux on a laptop.

If you can stretch the budget a bit further, and if
you haven't already bought a laptop, on
www.auctions.compaq.co.uk you can usually pick up a
discontinued model laptop for somewhere between £900
to £1000.
These are brand new machines that come with full
manufacturers warranty.

Earlier this year I bought a Compaq Armada M700 for
£935 IIRC. This is (was?) a nicely specced machine:
850 MHz Pentium III, 256 Meg Ram. 14.1 inch screen.
Onboard 100 Meg ethernet, USB, winmodem etc. But no
FireWire though.
It comes with a 3 year 2-day-pick-up-and-return
warranty.
It runs Linux perfectly. XWindows works, USB works,
network works, soundcard works. Even the win-modem
works once you download the driver. Suspend seems to
work almost perfectly now (It used to be a bit flakey,
but after upgrading to Suse 8.1, it seems much more
reliable).

Hope I'm not too late.

Regards
Kevin

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