Re: need a recommendation on a good laptop

[NZG <ngustavson@emacinc.com>]

I recently bought an Acer 2200 Travelmate off Tiger direct for around 700 
bucks.
It comes pre-installed with XP, and intelligently uses 2 partitions, dividing 
the memory right in half, so if you want to install Linux, you can do it 
without re-partitioning everything.
The standard Debian install freaked out, but Knoppix went right in, with no 
special monkeybusiness.
Also I believe Acer distributes their own Linux version, but I'm a bit scared 
of it.

Anyway, if you looking for a cheaper laptop I'd recommend it.
It's got a Celeron 2.8Gig with a Radeon 9000.

I upgraded the RAM(pretty easy to do) and I can run Guild Wars on it's XP side 
with almost full graphical acceleration (which I have been doing every 
night :) 

I'm pretty happy with it,
NZG.

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:17, Kyle Pointer wrote:
> I'd go with a ThinkPad from IBM. Their ( IMHO ) fairly priced and they
> will come with Windows XP. And they are supposed to have very good Linux
> compatibility.
> I think Doc would know more about ThinkPads than I would though, seeing
> as he owns one and I don't.
> -- kyle
>
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