Re: Notebook for Debian
> David Welton wrote:
> > Don't want to spend a fortune
> > Don't need anything fantastic
> > Do want something that works well with Debian
> > Don't want to have to use proprietary X servers.
I picked up an HP OmniBook 800 a few weeks ago specifically to run
Debian. So far I'm delighted. It has only an 800x600 screen, but for
$1000 it's sub-4 lbs, tiny, has a full-size keyboard and TFT display,
2+ gig drive, 2 meg VRAM, 2 PCMCIA slots, and detatchable floppy and
CDRom (not counted in the weight). Only 16meg of RAM, with another 32
about $70 and $64 $160. 1 year warranty.
For battery life I'm getting about 3 hours running in console mode and
about 1 hour running X. The server is the NeoMagic one just moved from
binary-only to a free part of XF86.
It's done everything I've asked of it so far.
--Eric House
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