barebones laptop

[Tim M]

I totally agree with Scott. I am running Ubuntu 7.04 and don't even have a
full gig of RAM. This machine is three years old and I installed Ubuntu in
early August after buying another hard drive for it. I have had few problems
with either the computer or Ubuntu.

Tim



On 9/17/07, Scott <slewin at bmts.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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> Your friend,
> Scott
>
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