Re: [MLUG] cheap, not too heavy laptops with linux?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Sigh, my computer died a pitiful death just after I sunk a lot of money 
into ram, new hdds, and new video card. The CPU fan burnt out and seems 
to have taken at least the CPU with it as unplugging all the extra stuff 
and putting a new fan on the CPU didn't make a bit of difference. I hope 
the CPU is the only other thing I have to replace as I can't afford 
much. If possible I'm going to reuse the mobo and ram who knows what 
else could have gone out if the CPU was cooking up a storm. At least I 
have the case full of lots of fans so hopefully everything else didn't 
get to hot. Got three hdd fans and half a dozen case fans in there and 
the GPU has a freaking huge fan on it.

On the good news side I was able to convert a couple year old Dell 
laptop into a Linux terminal at work for use by the package shipping 
staff. Works pretty nicely once you figure out how to make the wifi work 
thanks to ndiswrapper.
> Hi again! 
> I"m on my quest to find a decent, not too expensive, hopefully under
> $1000 laptop. I was wondering if you guys knew a good place for
> relativly inexpensive linux laptops.  I just want it for school and as
> long as I have open office, i should be fine.  Just curious! 
>
> I was thinking of upgrading my home tower too. especially graphics card.
> I have a AGP ATI card right now... i'm told i should go PCI express, but
> that means updating my motherboard as well.  Suggestions there? I don't
> want to spend too much. I"m still in the car buying process which isn't
> going well!

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