Notebook Recommendations

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:40:26PM +1300, Joe Mahoney wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 11:03 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > The fact that nobody recommended Compaq probably speaks for itself
> > (although things may have improved since HP took over).
> 
> Not that you can get one now, but I run Warty on a 4yr old Compaq
> Presario 1200. Ubuntu seems to be a great distro for old-ish hardware.

I haven't tried Ubuntu on it, but I did install Debian on an even-older
Presario 1070 and I never could get any pcmcia cards to be recognized. 
It only has 32 MB of RAM and a 1 GB hard drive, so it's not too useful
anyway.  I tried re-installing Windows on it and it said that the A20
interrupt is missing (or something similar).  I've also had problems
with Compaq desktops in the past (my first PC was a 1985 DeskPro and it
had numerous problems with the contacts on the ISA slots and power
supply cable).  Their bioses have always seemed a bit weird, but Compaq 
isn't alone in that.