Re: What's your favorite inexpensive Linux laptop?
I do work for HP so this is a biased opinion...nonetheless,
on the newer side, I've been using HP OmniBook 500 and
OmniBook 6000 laptops and love 'em both. The 500 is very
lightweight and easy to schlep around, with 3+ hour battery
life easy. But, my eyesight is not the best in the world,
so I typically carry around the 6000 (bigger display, at
1400x1280). I can get the dual batteries (one main and one
module plugged in) to run just over three hours, too, if I
don't use my wireless LAN and I make the screen background
all black. If I have to travel at all, though, it's the 500
(it's also much less expensive than the 6000).
On the older side, I've used an HP OmniBook 4150, too. Also
a nice box, with pretty good display. You might be able to
get a good deal on a used one of these.
All of these machines have been running potato, too. There
are folks in my group running unstable on their laptops, too;
seems to work pretty well so far.
That's my $0.02 worth...
Alex Swavely wrote:
>
> I have an old IBM 385ED, works dandy... Modem and ethernet are external
> (pcmcia or via serial/paralel ports), just gotta make sure there's a FAT16
> partiton for the hibernation file (the size of your installed RAM)... Only
> issue I have is BIOS limits HD size to 5.1 GB.
>
> Friend's got a couple of Toshiba Satellites he got through work that work
> just as well, same approx. size, same pointer (eraser in the middle of
> keyboard), same screen size..
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Chris Ivanovich <creature@blacklagoon.org>
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:09:27 -0500
>
> Greetings fellow Debianers...
>
> I was hoping I could get some personal opinions here. I currently
> have Debian running on a server in my house, and a Macintosh
> notebook. I'm now looking to fire up a PC notebook with it, as well.
>
> I'm looking for recommendations as to what brand and model I should
> look for (or stay away from). I don't want to spend more than $800
> for the beast, so getting something that is new is _not_ important.
> I would prefer something with an active matrix screen, built in modem
> and ethernet, and CD drive. And the smaller and lighter the better -
> but certainly not the most important consideration.
>
> And I _won't_ be running Windoze on it.
>
> Any thoughts out there from your experience?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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Ciao,
al
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Al Stone
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