[plug] Advice needed for laptop

[senectus]

I second the IBM vote..
And avoid centrino like the plague (IBM does) it's a load of cheap crap.

I have an IBM Thinkpad A31p it's a bit heavy on the juice if I crack it up..
but makes for a damn fine replacement desktop.



-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au]
On Behalf Of Ben Jensz
Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2004 10:27 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Advice needed for laptop

Depends on what you're looking at in a laptop.

If you want something you can be away from a powerpoint from for a 
couple of hours, then you'll need to look at the Pentium M based 
laptops.  Some of the other ones claim to be able to operate at up to 
2-3 hours.. but in practise thats a load of ...... .

If my bank account would allow me, I'd be buying an IBM R series laptop....


/ Ben


Richard Meyer wrote:

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>
>Hi guys, I'm in the market for a decent laptop.
>
>I've looked through linuxlaptop.com, but there doesn't seem to be any
>discussion about how well particular lappies work with linux.
>Linuxlaptop.org and .net are worse than useless, just pushing hosting and
>domain names.
>
>I have my eye on the Toshiba A10 at the moment (the price is nearly right)
>- I would like any feedback from people who have lappies working with linux
>as to what they have, how well it works, and whether they'd buy it again in
>hindsight. Any comments on the A10 would also be helpful. The pedlar
>(salesman) at the Toshiba place is quite happy that I take in a Knoppix CD
>and try it.
>
>Thanks
>RichardM
>
>
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