Well im runing Mandrake 8.2 on a Dell latitude CPi 266MHz 128Mb ram... and its doing allright. I only have two problems... Its got a CS42xx sound chipset and it crashes hard witha defult mandrake kernal when i close the lid(it seems to start spining the cd drive). Also i get a crashing problem when running gnome... but kde is fine. Ive also tryed mandrake 8.0 befor upgrading to 8.2 and i have the same problems... Nuatilas(gnome file manager) used to crash my system when a ran it :(.
I know its an old system but it works well anoth and cost £500 snd hand a few months ago... (i dont wana know if ive been riped off).
-----Original Message----- From: "Ricardo Campos" corez23@linuxmail.org To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:30:02 +0000 Subject: [Alug] linux laptops
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)
Ricardo