barebones laptop

[Scott]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Out of interest, I filled in the basics that a "normal" laptop nowadays
> offers and, no surprise, I am at $1450 and more, Operating system and
> office excluded.
> 
> Is this a good deal?
I don't think so.  I got a great laptop for CND $499.  A Dell Inspiron 
1501 
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_1501.  It 
did come with windows and crap software, but I just formated the hard 
drive and threw Ubuntu in it.  Works great.

-- 
Your friend,
Scott

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