Id love a new Mac but cant afford it.
No you don't, that's just the conditioning talking ;)
So I am looking for suggestions. It will run Ubuntu or Mint alongside Windows (for those times when you have to use Windows).
If you've had a mac for 11 years, what times do you face when need Windows? Go the whole hog, you'll love it :) Life without Gates, Jobs, or other corporate monsters with plural nouns for surnames is far shinier. In the REM sense.
It needs to be fairly small, with a built in CD drive, USB, PCMCIA slot and built in sound. I know that all sounds fairly standard but Ive had machines in the past few years without some of these.
It really needs to be at least a 1Ghz machine capable of 1GB RAM - DDR preferably but PC133 would be ok.
I bought a low-end Toshiba jobbie a while back and it's done me pretty well over the years. Anything brought out within the last 5 years or so is likely supported fairly well.
I now await the reply which shoots that down ;)
HTH, HAND Steve
P.S. Sorry Simon, I blindly hit the reply button forgetting that I wasn't in mutt.