[ale] Laptops and Linux

[allanneal at comcast.net (Allan Neal)]

anyone have any experience with tuxedopc.com?

I'm looking at these as they come dual boot with XP Pro and Ubuntu.

Allan

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:39:18AM -0500, KingBahamut wrote:
> http://system76.com  Nothing but good from them thus far.
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> On 11/3/06, Robert L. Harris < Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> wrote:
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>       I'm looking to get another laptop.  Right now I'm on a Lenovo (IBM) 3000
>     N100.  Core 2 Duo, 512Meg Ram, 1.66Ghz and it's killing me.  Open Firefox,
>     Amarok and an OpenOffice Spreadsheet and I can grind it to a halt for 10
>     minutes.
> 
>       I don't want to spend 2k, but any off the top of your head
>     suggestions?  Any opinions of an AMD Turion vs P4?  Duo or no, etc?
>     Yes, it will need to run Linux, Debian or Ubuntu.
> 
>     Robert
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>     :wq!
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