John Freeman wrote:
If you look in <SWEAR> Dixons, currys or PC World </SWEAR> you'll find a great laptop with the brand name of Advent, which is priced at 700 quid upwards. I have one and its perfect for running linux. Im sure for 800 you'll get 1ghz Celeron, 256mb Ram, 20 gig HDD, DVD, openGL gfx card and an internal LAN NIC. Everything worked first time after installing slackware, with the exception of the damn WinModem, but I have a Psion Gold card going for 25 quid (minus the cables tho, cant remember where the buggers got to)
IMHO. Advent is a very good laptop for running linux, and its priced great too.
I seem to remember that when I tried to install Linux on my brand new Advent PIII 700Mhz laptop at one of the ALUG meetings at Syleham (there were witnesses to this!), the screen suddenly went dead and I couldn't use the laptop ever again. It was working absolutely fine with Windoze beforehand.
Much later on, when I received my brand new replacement machine from PC World, I was using Mandrake 8.0 and then suddenly many I/O errors appeared on the HD and I stopped using Linux on it immediately. Once under Windows everything was fine. I quickly got rid of the laptop and replaced it with a Sony Vaio and have been happy ever since.
Regards,
Martyn