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

[Jeff Hunt]

On 22nd March (Thursday) at Gracefield (Petone) Turners Auctions are selling
50 or so Dell 1400Meg laptops. These typically fetch in the $400 to $550
mark and are usually good working machines that accept Ubuntu. A friend and
I use one and are very happy.

Perhaps not right for you but a cheap option.

On 3/20/07, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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