[ale] Laptop Questions

[James P. Kinney III]

Or better, walk in with Slackware 8.1 CD #2 and boot to a full X system!
Run KDE, Gnome, XFce, twm and REALLY blow away the sales weanies!!

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 15:34, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> cfowler wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm hoping I could get some good feedback here.  I went to CompUSA to
> > look at Laptops.  But it is so hard determining if Linux works on them.
> > I'm thinking about the Toshiba Satellite system.  Can someone here give
> > me advise on purchasing a new laptop to run Linux on.  I'm looking to
> > spend around $1500+ so I get a *good* and *fast* one.  I do not want to
> > be locked down to winbloze.
> 
> To narrow the field, you could walk in with a TomsRootBoot disk
> in your pocket and see how many of them will at least boot to
> a bash prompt. Should give the sales staff something to think
> about ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
> 
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