[Wylug-help] Laptop Choice

[James Holden]

Dave Whiteley wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>Shopping advice please.
>
>I am looking to buy myself a laptop to run Linux. As it is _my_ money,
>price and usefullness is more important than speed.
>
>I am replacing a 48Mb 2Gb 66Mhz machine that is doing good service for
>me, except that the Disk is too small and the display is 800x600 only.
>
>I am not playing games, so speed is not that important.
>
>Ethernet is important, so pcmcia or built in an advantage.
>
>Of course, I would prefer to avoid paying anything to $soft.
>
>Suggestions gratefully received.
>
>Dave
>
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>School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
>The University of Leeds. Leeds, LS2 9JT,  UK
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Hi!

IBM Thinkpads have been an excellent bet for a while now. My 600X,
although 3 years old, is fully supported (P3-500, 384MB, 11GB, DVD) even
the modem. The build quality is fantastic too. A colleague of mine just
bought a Dell Inspiron and it just seems very flimsy by comparison.

There's a very active linux-thinkpad mailing list too. Lots of helpful
people there.

James