Laptop question

[manchicken]

On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:42:43 Nigel Ridley wrote:
> A local shop is offering older model Dell laptops for half the price of the
> newer models. Amongst the ones on offer is a Dell D600 with an ATI Mobility
> Radeon 32MB and a 30GB hard drive. Intel Pentium M - CPU Core: Banias 130nm
> @ 1.4GHz
>
> Questions:
> 1. Would any of you folks buy a brand new 3 year old laptop with a one year
> warranty (for half the price of one of the latest models)?
> 2. Any foreseeable problems running the latest and greatest Kubuntu on it?
>
> TIA
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel
>
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To be completely honest, I'd personally avoid ATI like the plague if possible.  
I suppose if you don't want 3D then it's less of a problem, but laptops with 
ATI often times have other ATI stuff in them like disk controllers and audio 
devices.

Depending on your cost and needs, I still think buying a system76 
(http://system76.com) is better.

Kubuntu should run okay on that laptop, but the ATI hardware sometimes causes 
trouble.

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