J.R. Seago wrote:
Having given the background here's my question, as I needed to stay in email contact with a number of people today, would it be worthwhile buying a laptop, if so which one? Morgans flyer which came this morning has Toshiba's at prices starting at £328·99. Although I seem to remember reading somewhere that Mesh laptop's fitted GNU/Linux better, anyone any suggestions, or ideas of what to avoid? I'd want toput Slackware 11 onto it.
If you're still looking for a laptop /anyway/ because they're always a good thing to have -- I *highly* recommend Novatech (http://www.novatech.co.uk) for laptops. My girlfriend just bought their cheapest model, sans operating system (what a bonus!). Specs are something like 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, DVD-RW, Widescreen etc etc. and *everything* works out of the box (including with the lovely Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. It was only around £350...
--Simon