[ale] Big laptop advice

[William Witt]

I'm Happy with my Dell Studio 1737.  It was less than $800 at Best Buy and 
came with an upgraded battery that lasts 3 1/2 to 4 hours with desktop effects 
turned on.   Has a Broadcom  wireless card that Ubuntu has drivers for and 
Intel graphics.

Will

On Friday 05 June 2009 16:48:52 Mike Harrison wrote:
> All of a sudden, I -need- a good desktop replacement laptop (15-17+"
> bright hi-res crisp screen) that will run Ubuntu (Jaunty) 64 bit very very
> well and be a development system when I am travelling. I have a netbook for
> general needs, this is for doing code work (lots of xterm and a web browser
> windows) on location.. sometimes running a vmWare instance of
> Windows/server.. I've had good luck with nVidia video..
>
> (I just gave my HP 17" to a sales droid.. w/Ubuntu)
>
> Anyone ranting good things about anything?