[GLLUG] New notebook purchase advice requested

[G Jay Grant]

I use a Sager 5660 purchased from powernotbooks.com more than a year
ago. It has been a great system and I have always run Linux on it with
no problems. Right now, I have Fedora 2 on it. 

GJG

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 17:26, Matt Graham wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> > On Oct 1, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Brian Hoort wrote:
> > > My laptop broke.  :(  I'll have to buy a new one.  :)
> > > I'm interested in their basic, least expensive, entry-level model.   
> > > However, I don't really need Windows, and I'm thinking 
> > > I can save ~$80 going with a manufacturer that will allow you to not 
> > > purchase Windows. Any experience with other manufacturers?
> 
> IBM = teh awes0me.  Get a refurbished IBM laptop from pricewatch (they're
> currently showing an A22e, 900MHz, 128M, 20G for $800, an R50p, 1700 MHz,
> 512M, 60G for $2614, and things cheaper and in between) and things should work
> fine.  You will get it with 'Doze installed; fortunately, that's pretty easy
> to fix.  IBM laptops are solidly built, you can find documentation on
> replacing every FRU there is for every model of Thinkpad on IBM's website, and
> they typically work well with Linux.
> 
> If you really want to avoid paying the Windows Tax and you want a new machine,
> Sager will sell you a machine without any OS on it if you call them up and
> speak to a live human.  http://sagernotebooks.com/ for contact info.  Sager
> machines are often rebranded as Dell/Compaq machines so retailers can jack the
> price a few hundred bucks.  I'd buy things from Sager if they offered machines
> with Trackpoints.
> 
> > iBooks are a pretty killer notebooks, and they come with a Unix OS 
> > installed.  Food for thought, I'm not a pusher.
> 
> iBooks are expensive unless you buy refurbished, they have touchpads instead
> of Trackpoints, and Brian wanted something cheap.  It's also a pain in the
> arse to replace some components (like the hard drive) in iBooks. 
> http://smalldog.com/ has a bunch of refurbished iBooks though.  HTH,
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G. J. Grant
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