On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:45:06PM +0100, 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.
I'm hazarding a guess here (based on your email address)... but, even if you had a magical laptop and the power went out how would you get online if your adsl router didn't have power? :) You'd need some kind of ups or a usb dsl modem (but they eat battery very quickly). Of course a ups on the dsl gear and a laptop would give the most uptime in the event of a power failure, but i'd look at a ups for the main machine anyway "just in case" so it doesn't get the psu busted if it happens in the future.
Adam