[GLLUG] Cheap laptops

[Matt Souden]

Hi guys,

I'm a fan of a shop down here in Ann Arbor called Affordable Computers. 
Some of you have seen my refurbished Dell Latitude C600 PIII 850 w/ 
256MB RAM (512 now).

I got it almost 3 years ago for about $800 w/ Mandrake on it... and have 
beaten on it ever since. Affordable got me into Linux, and they treat me 
pretty good.

Their stuff comes w/ a year warranty and the C600 is Linux friendly, 
easily tinkered with, and proved to me to be rather robust- I'm hard on 
equipment.

My machine is going for like $449 with them now.
http://www.affordablecomputers.com/pages/products.php/8569

Have fun tonight- I'm going north with the family.
Sorry to have missed the MythTV night. I was applying Darth Maul face 
paint for the 12:01 showing.
(kidding- but we did have that guy in the theater.)

Matt

Matt Graham wrote:

>On Wednesday 25 May 2005 08:51, after a long battle with technology, 
>Lachniet, Mark wrote:
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>
>>Yao-Ying Chien wrote:
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>>>I am interested in buying a laptop computer. Mainly to run
>>>Linux, say Redhat 8.0+.  Min CPU speed 700 MHz. If you have
>>>any, could you please email me the model and your price?
>>>IBM Thinkpad T22 is my temporary reference point for 
>>>performance/price. I don't know if it's a good one.
>>>      
>>>
>
>A T22 should be OK, but you'll probably want to get another stick of RAM 
>for it.  IBM's laptops all take standard SODIMMs, so no worries there.
>
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>>keep an eye on xpbargains.com and you can get a spiffy new one cheap
>>($600-$700)
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>
>I've been using IBM Thinkpads of various types to run Linux since 2000.  
>My current machine is an A22p (PIII-900, 384M, 1600x1200 screen, 
>built-in floppy, CD-RW in Ultrabay) and everything Just Works.  I took 
>a look on the "refurb/open box deals" section of pricewatch.com and 
>found that you can get a factory refurbished Thinkpad T30 (P4-1600, 
>256M, 1024x768 screen, DVD-ROM) for $720.  Reports from 
>linux-on-laptops.com say that the T30 works well with Fedora Core 3.  
>
>Or you can go with the T22.  Whatever works.  If you're willing to wait 
>~8 months, I'm probably going to be getting a newer laptop and selling 
>my old A22p for about half of what I paid for it, but you probably 
>don't want to wait that long!  HTH anyway,
>
>  
>

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