Re: Laptop choice?

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> 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

These were special "Day after Thanksgiving" sales.  I misplaced the 
sales flyers, but I believe that the Toshiba was at Office epot and the 
HP was at Best Buy.  I still have the Staples add for the Compaq.

As good as the prices were, quantities are very limited and everyone is 
out shopping today. I decided that it was not worth getting up and out 
of the house before dark to get in line before the stores opened to try 
for one of these.  I've decided that Ill just hang in there for another 
few months of actual employment to get the finances in better order and 
then, maybe, I can look at Thinkpads.

--
Marc Shapiro

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What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!

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