[ale] Laptop Recommendations

Matt Perry matt at primefactor.com
Tue Jun 2 14:03:45 EDT 1998


Hello everyone.  I've decided that I'm going to buy a laptop to run Linux
but I want to make sure I get something that's going to have support and
drivers for it.

My main requirements are to be able to have at least 64 megs, CDROM drive,
at least one PCMCIA slot (for ethernet/modem), and an active matrix
color screen that can do at least 1024x768 in 32k colours.  I'm not that
concerned about speed (a p133 or equivilent would be plenty fast), nor
battery life.  I'm getting this more for the portability than to actually
use while in transit.  There is usually AC everywhere I go.

Of course it doesn't need to have 64 megs and lots of HD space and VRAM
out of the box.  As long as I can add it.

I have been reading the Linux Laptop page and reading about people's
different experiences there, but I thought I would ask here on the list to
see if anyone has a laptop similar to what I'm looking for that has had a 
good experience.

Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com
"After ecstasy, laundry." - Zen writing






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