Re: Linux on the Cheapest Laptops

From: Tony Sivori (TonySivori_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/17/05

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    James Knott wrote:

    > Tony Sivori wrote:
    >
    >> What are the odds of Mandrake / Mandriva or Suse working on the bottom
    >> of the line laptops that Office Depot, Best Buy and others are selling?
    >> Has anyone here tried it?
    >
    > There's a company called "Angel Computers", which sells low end
    > computers, loaded with Linux. They sell them for less than the same
    > computer with Windows.

    Unfortunately, their prices are all well over $1000.

    > Also, I believe Wal Mart has or had some notebooks loaded with Linux.
    > Either of those sources should be OK for any Linux distro.

    That $499 Wal-Mart Linspire laptop is significantly underspecification
    compared to the recent sales. 128 MB ram versus 246 MB, 30 GB HD versus 40
    GB, CR-ROM versus CD-RW with DVD-ROM, built in wireless versus no
    wireless, and a 1 GHz VIA CPU (WTF?) versus, Intel or AMD up to an AMD
    2800+. 

    -- 
Tony Sivori
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