Re: [Hampshire] [Hardware] Laptop Suitability

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:27:45 +0000
Jacqui Caren <jacqui.caren@???> wrote:

> My acer was 399 a goo dfew years ago is ~1.5GHz and reputedly runs
> linux well - it wouks well with a live CD for me. I think the book
> price for the next model up is now 299 so ~270 for a s/h box with
> less of everything does not sound too good to me. Take a trip to a
> big staples such as reading and see if they have anything on offer
> (they are horrific at advertising online - you only see the
> bargains in the paper). For me I plan to look after xmas for the
> 'discounts'.

I had a look at 'cheap' laptops with my daughter a couple of months
ago in Staples & PCWorld and couldn't recommend any of them to her as
the keyboards on all we looked at were horrible. Very flexible and
dead feeling compared to my TP600E.

Plus they all had those 'orrible touchpad things which I personally
find unusable and some only had two 'mouse' buttons.

--
John Lewis
Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application