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.
<br><br>Perhaps not right for you but a cheap option.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jethro Carr</b> <<a href="mailto:jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com">jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:23 +1200, David Harrison wrote:<br>> On 19/03/2007, at 11:17 PM, Jethro Carr wrote:
<br>><br>> >> Ideally what I am after is a small laptop for around $2000 or less*.<br>> >> Does anyone have any recommendations for a Linux compatible laptop<br>> >> that fits this set of requirements and doesn't cost more than a Mac?
<br>> ><br>> > well, it's about $3000 but the Toshiba Libretto is awesome if you<br>> > want a<br>> > tiny laptop.<br>> ><br>> > Here's a review of it:<br>> > <a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=4873">
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=4873</a><br>> ><br>> > I have one of these laptops & I just love it - it takes some getting<br>> > used to the keyboard and screen though, since they are so small. You
<br>> > probably wouldn't want to use this as your primary machine all the<br>> > time,<br>> > unless you don't mind connecting an external display/keyboard/mouse.<br>><br>> Cool, I saw this advertised but the photos on the Toshiba website
<br>> don't do it justice...<br><br>You will find that even the photos on reviews just don't do the unit<br>justice. It's so small it's amazing - I carry it around with me in a<br>camera bag. :-D<br><br>
<br>> Is getting everything up and running (like wireless) a pain or does<br>> it all 'just work'?<br>> Are you running it with 512meg RAM and if so how does it handle?<br><br>yeah, I found every thing works fine out-of-the-box with a Ubuntu
6.06<br>install, except:<br><br>- bluetooth (I haven't tested)<br><br>- modem (I haven't tested)<br><br>- suspend to disk (hibernation) has strange problems. (but suspend to<br>ram works fine)<br><br><br>The 512MB of RAM is fine, and I haven't had any problems with that.
<br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br>Jethro Carr<br><br><a href="http://www.jethrocarr.com">www.jethrocarr.com</a><br><a href="http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php">www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php</a><br>
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