[TriLUG] Laptops: Compaq and Sempron

[Wing D Lizard]

Regarding crap, I hope you are joking.

Linux has good support on a wide varity of hardware, even if it does 
come from
BB, CC or Office*.

Do a google search for "linux laptop" and you will see a web pages that list
notebooks running on linux.

IBM is good, but expensive.  I'm lusting after a hp amd64 laptop ( or the
sagar np4750 laptop ( http://wastelands.net/d470k/ ).

b²

Jason Tower wrote:

> any laptop you buy from office depot or best buy will likely be crap, 
> and not work well with linux.  your best bet is to get an ibm EPP code 
> from someone in the lug (join the #trilug irc channel, we'll hook you 
> up) and get a thinkpad.
>
> jason
>
> matt-nc wrote:
>
>> I'm still looking for a laptop that will run Linux and Apache for my 
>> personal use to learn PHP and MySQL.  What do you all think of Compaq 
>> with an AMD Sempron processor?
>>
>> Office Depot has a special offer that ends today, which can also be 
>> upgraded to an AMD Athlon 64 for another $75.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any great online sources to recommend for a new 
>> machine?  The prices of laptops on eBay seem pretty high when you 
>> compare them with the weekly special rebate offers from Office Depot 
>> or Best Buy.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>>





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