Laptop choice?
For those who have already finished their turkey, or reside outside the
US and don't celebrate Thanksgiving, or for whatever reason are actually
reading debian-user today...
I finally have some spare cash and so am looking to replace my aged IBM
Thinkpad 390. All the sale flyers came in today's paper for sales
tomorrow and Saturday. I need some advice on which laptop to get. I
have looked around on Google, at linuxlaptops.com and such. A lot of
what I see is several years old and I could use some current tips from
people running linux on current machines.
I expect I will be doing some programming, some word-processing, a
little image manipulation, possibly a small amount of sound file
manipulation. I might also move my website maintenance from the desktop
to the laptop. I am not a gamer! This is probably not going to be a
"heavy load" machine, but I want something that will work well for me
and not give me any headaches. I have enough of those, already.
These are what I am currently looking at:
Toshiba Satellite ($299.99 US)
Intel Celeron M 420
512 MB DDR2 RAM
80 GB HD
CD-RW/DVD
802.11 a/b/g
Compaq Presario ($399.98 US)
AMD Turion64
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
CD-RW/DVD
802.11 b/g
HP ($379.99 US)
Intel Core Solo T1350
512 MB DDR2 RAM
80 GB HD
DVD-RW
Centrino Mobile Technology
Since I just got a job (hence the spare cash) using M$ I will be leaving
that other OS on the box and installing Debian as a dual boot. I would
appreciate any tips on what does, or does not work. Getting wireless to
work, etc.
--
Marc Shapiro
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!
- Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail
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