[Ubuntu Chicago] laptop search?

[William Scott Lockwood III]

Tigerdirect.com and Microcenter both have laptops in your price range
for less than $500. At TD, for slightly over $500, you can get 2 gigs of
ram and a DVD-R.

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 16:29 -0600, Eddie Martinez wrote:
> Hey all, i'm in the market for a new(er) laptop than the one I have
> now, an Invibile Model Fake 3500. Basically, I'm searching to get a
> laptop in the 500 hunded dollar range or so. I mostly need it for web
> stuff, with some software development purposes. My most critical
> demands for a computer is that it be Gnu/Linux friendly, something
> about 1.6 clock speed, and a gig or so of RAM. Aside from that, I am
> open to any brand name. etc. 
> 
> I've considered System76, Thinkpad, Dell, etc. I am not impressed at
> the moment simply because I don't want a brand new, super expensive
> computer. Something that justworks (tm) is my aim. I am also open to
> used/refurbished latops.If anyone wants to suggest or point me to a
> good lappy, i would appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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