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

[Jennifer Dozar <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 12:28:07AM -0500, Phillip Kelchen wrote:
> Personally, since you have a desktop, get a used laptop that's a year or two 
> old. You can usually get them pretty cheaply. Laptops are really meant to do 
> non-intensive things while away from the desk. My 4-year-old Gateway lap 
> anchor with a 2.2GHz Pentium 4-M and (upgraded to) 1GB RAM is more than 
> sufficient to run OpenOffice, Firefox/Konqueror and an e-mail client. I'd say 
> shoot for a Pentium M model with a 14" screen as that would be a good size.

IS that one i Linked good then? :)  it's a pentium M I think 1.7 Ghz
with a gig of ram.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7625894&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat64100050013&id=1130986342686

Has 14" screen, WXGA HiDef Screen with Brightview. it's one of the
lightweight ones, 5.3 pounds it says! Centrino wireless built in.  Comes
with XP home, which i'm not that thrilled about. comes with MS Works,
Money, movie maker, media player. Adobe acrobat reader, intervideo
(which i like!) some other crap i'll never use! haha. It's a
DVD+-R/CD-RW drive :)  So i'm pretty excited for the most part. IT is
mostly what i was wanting. After shipping and Taxes, came out to be
$995. So, i'm under what I wanted to pay and i got pretty darn close to
what i was wanting.  I will Dual-boot it of course! And Open Office,
Trillian, and DiabloII is going right on it the moment it gets here!
hehe. :) I haven't decided what Linux distro I want on it yet. I had
fedora on my last laptop. I have Ubuntu disks around here somewhere.  I
could get Suse or something. I'm just throwing out ideas. 

> 
> You only would want to go to a new motherboard if your processor needs 
> upgraded too. Otherwise there's always the AGP NVIDIA 7800GS, which is faster 
> than most PCIe cards except the 7800GT(X) and 79x0 series. You could also use 
> the AGP version of the ATI X850(some X's and T's here). The AGP 8x interface 
> is more than sufficient for everything except SLI setups. The people running 
> SLI need two PCIe slots, but the rest of us can do fine with one GPU slot. If 
> you don't game, you can get away with a PCI card if you want. My $40 GeForce 
> 6200TC (admittedly a x16 PCIe part) would make a rotten gamer card but 
> handles a 1600x1200 and 1280x1024 monitor in dual-head setup like a champ. It 
> also does XGL.

I"ll price the NVida's for AGP. My boyfriend keeps bugging me to go PCIe
:P i don't really give a crap either way. as long as EQ2 still works,
i'll be happy.  Ironically i had Nvidia4 chipset on my motherboard but
it was the ONLY one EQ2 didn't support in that series. bastards!  I'll
run by Microcenter here in a little while and see how much they are
running for. I game somewhat. Mainly EQ and EQ2.  I Don't have the
support for sure hardware wise to play Oblivion, tho it looks fun :)
Most gaming I do is on Playstation or GameCube anymore. But i'd like to
be able to play Unreal Tournament or something like that when i feel
like it.  I'll price the Nvidia7800 today and see what is there.
Thanks!!  If prices isn't too nasty, i may get it :) 


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