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offers a 4.99lb laptop built by Compal (an ODM) with an Nvidia 6400 Go video and Centrino components.  I bought a 3 year warranty and didn't pay for XP when I bought mine for $1600 even.  I'm sure you can find something like this near you.

Now, there is a major OEM laptop company selling laptop components so you can build something like this yourself if you want.  I can't remember the name at the moment.  I don't really see the need for buying from Dell or any major laptop company anymore when modular laptops are available.  Also, Emperor Linux is really a superb company with killer laptop configurations if you want a Linux environment.  I've dealt with them on a laptop I had purchased from Dell that Emperor reloaded the OS software and configured.  If you've already bought a laptop and Emperor sells that model, you can take the laptop to them and they will do their magic with the software and give you 1 year warranty on the software load.  It is a nice deal for around $450, IIRC.  I think their new laptop/notepad with the hand writing recognition is a cool product.

Good luck with your purchase and keep us informed on what you decide,
Dow
  


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From: Tim Watts &lt;timtw at earthlink.net&gt;
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Dec 13, 2005 5:26 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts &lt;ale at ale.org&gt;
Subject: [ale] Laptop and linux

Hi,

I'm considering a laptop and I want to dual boot it w/ Linux/XP (or at least 
have an XP image I can boot into a la VmWare). What models are particularly 
well/poorly suited for this? Any vendors who can build this for me? Any linux 
distro's better for this than others (I have SuSE 9.2 on my current tower 
which I bought from Monarch; I got pretty good svc from them although they 
only seemed to have 1 linux guy who was &quot;part-time&quot; at that)?
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