[plug] Which brand of laptop?

[James L. Clarke]

Apple, the standard MacBooks not the rip off Airs or Pros and then run
Linux and Windows under VMWare...

P.S. I'm not a Mac Zealot, I'm writing this email on a Trinix brand
desktop PC, running Ubuntu... But if I bought a laptop it would be a
MacBook.



On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 19:37 +1000, w0018749 wrote:
> I am buying a new laptop and I want to know: What brand of
> computers are the best?  This question probably has many
> answers so just a link to another discussion somewhere would
> be enough - or even a list of brands to avoid.
> 
> These are the things I need on this laptop:
> 1- big enough hard drive to have both linux and windows
> 2- keyboard with a number pad at the right (if possible)
> 3- DVD player and cd burner
> 4- wireless internet
> 5- I also need a stress-free installation process - I have
> had several attempts of installing linux and not many
> successes
> 
> I plan to install ubunta (spelling?) as I heard it can be
> configured for wireless.
> 
> I have been using linux for about a year on an old IBM
> "thinkpad" R52(?) laptop with 10Gb of memory.  It works good
> but its not big enough to run windows which I need from time
> to time for programs sent from Uni.  I have a DEL desktop
> but I am not so sure about that company.  If usb sticks are
> an indicator TOSHIBA looks good since you can fit two side
> by side in two adjacent ports and in the shell it does not
> have spaces in the key directory (TOSHIBA).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
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