[ale] Opinions on lightweight laptops?

[fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man]

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 13:07 -0400, John Wells wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> I'm tired of lugging around my 8 lbs. Dell Inspiron and have decided to
> purchase a more portable laptop.
> 
> I've been looking at Lenovo...they seem to compete in cost and offer a
> wide variety. Those with 13.3" screens are appealing (they're roughly 3
> pounds), yet I fear writing code, which is primarily what I use it for,
> might be hard on such a low resolution.
> 
> Any recommendations? My only desires are: decently powerful, lightweight,
> capable of running Ubuntu well.
> 
> Thanks,
> John


Something else that I have seen that you may want to look into:  Emperor
Linux which sells laptops with Linux on them.

    ? Mike

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