[ale] big laptop advice

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

Neal Rhodes wrote:
> HP dv7-1245DX was a shade under $600 at Best Buys.
> 
> Ubuntu 64 bit installed okay.
> 
> Shrinking the vista partition was entertaining.

Care to elaborate on 'enteraining?'

> 8.10 resulted in no ethernet and no wireless.    8.04 at least got the 
> ethernet working and I've futzed the wireless into working.   Every 
> kernel update I have to dork with it again.
> 
> running 64 bit has meant that some packages I hoped to run (Userful)  
> are unavailable, so think that through carefully.
> 
> Neal Rhodes
> MNOP Ltd
> 
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