On Friday 26 Apr 2002 9:37 am, Darren Casey (Personal) wrote:
I'm looking for a linux laptop, medium spec. I want to pay roughly around £800. I'm intrigued by www.dnuk.com, since they offer laptops with linux preinstalled, but their prices seem a little higher than I can afford.
Has anyone got any tips? Should I go for a second hand laptop instead and struggle with the install myself? (yes, I DO know about www.linux-laptop.net)
Ok, I'm going to try and post this again, somehow kmail changed my FROM and REPLY TO address :/
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.