[wellylug] Small size (but not necessarily ultra-portable) laptop recommendations

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:23 +1200, David Harrison wrote:
> On 19/03/2007, at 11:17 PM, Jethro Carr wrote:
> 
> >> Ideally what I am after is a small laptop for around $2000 or less*.
> >> Does anyone have any recommendations for a Linux compatible laptop
> >> that fits this set of requirements and doesn't cost more than a Mac?
> >
> > well, it's about $3000 but the Toshiba Libretto is awesome if you  
> > want a
> > tiny laptop.
> >
> > Here's a review of it:
> > http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=4873
> >
> > I have one of these laptops & I just love it - it takes some getting
> > used to the keyboard and screen though, since they are so small. You
> > probably wouldn't want to use this as your primary machine all the  
> > time,
> > unless you don't mind connecting an external display/keyboard/mouse.
> 
> Cool, I saw this advertised but the photos on the Toshiba website  
> don't do it justice...

You will find that even the photos on reviews just don't do the unit
justice. It's so small it's amazing - I carry it around with me in a
camera bag. :-D


> Is getting everything up and running (like wireless) a pain or does  
> it all 'just work'?
> Are you running it with 512meg RAM and if so how does it handle?

yeah, I found every thing works fine out-of-the-box with a Ubuntu 6.06
install, except:

- bluetooth (I haven't tested)

- modem (I haven't tested)

- suspend to disk (hibernation) has strange problems. (but suspend to
ram works fine)


The 512MB of RAM is fine, and I haven't had any problems with that.





-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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