Marc Shapiro wrote:
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
Where do you get these prices? I checked Newegg and for a TOSHIBA Satellite A105-S2201 they want $690.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834114271 Hugo
Compaq Presario ($399.98 US) AMD Turion64 512 MB RAM 60 GB HD CD-RW/DVD 802.11 b/g HP ($379.99 US) Intel Core Solo T1350 512 MB DDR2 RAM 80 GB HD DVD-RW Centrino Mobile TechnologySince I just got a job (hence the spare cash) using M$ 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.