<OT> Soon to look for Laptop

[Rick Sivernell]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:20:23 -0800 (PST)
Net Llama <beemer9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Most of the major computer vendors' laptops are all made by the same
> company, Quanta.  That said, there's not much difference in quality
> between IBM, HP, Gateway, Compaq or SONY.
> 
> Thinkpads have a great reputation as being the workhorses of the laptop
> world.  
> 
> I personally own a SONY VAIO and an HP XE2.  Both are quite nice in
> their own ways (and both are relatively old/slow with a P-300 and
> PII-433 CPU respectively). 
> 
> At any rate, don't chain yourself to the notion that IBM is best in the
> laptop world.  Go to http://www.linux-laptop.net and look up whatever it
> is you're considering purchasing.  That's where i did all of my
> research.
> 
> --- Rick Sivernell <res005ru at gte.net> wrote:
> >  Lonni
> > 
> >   went to the site you sent, loots of stuff, even found the same 
> > machine for the same price too. The machine I saw today was 
> > a IBM TP 600E. Also doing some extensive research here &
> > there is a lot. I like Calders 3.1.1, & I will put kde2 on, just for
> > the kdevelop. There is not much out there for c++ development.
> > But having said that, I will use xfce as the desktop. It just nice.
> > What laptops do you think are the best for linux, your recommends.
> 
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Thanks Lonni
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Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at gte.net
Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1
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