Hi If you are planning to buy such a laptop in India, I would suggest go for companies like Wipro, Zenith, Dell or Compaq. In USA, Compaq, Sony could be a good buy. Instead of Celeron, choose AMD Athlon, they are cheaper and faster. Don't bother about HDD, modem and LAN, they all are upgradeable and could be upgraded/added later. Make your pick based on Screen size (at least 14"), processor and when you buy, buy maximum RAM in single shot (upgrading RAM later on is either not possible [when you need they would be out of production] or too expensive). And remember all your work is RAM intensive.
Bye Rahul
-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in] On Behalf Of Vikram Rangnekar Sent: 26 April 2003 11:14 To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Suggestions for a Notebook
+++ Sthitaprajna [26/04/03 09:03 +0530]:
Hi
I am looking to buy a notebook(my first one) and am sort of confused.
The sort
of specs I am looking at are (for a minimum):
- 1.7 GHz Celeron
- 256M RAM(expandable to quite a lot)
- Some sort of 4x agp
- 30G hdd
- Internal combo cd/dvd/writer
- Should be decently compatible with *nix...I will be on a LAN, so
modem
support is not really important, though it would be a plus if it were supported. My budget would be something around $1200... Can listers suggest a few models/makes that have decent support in
India? and
any other points that i need to be aware of before buying?
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DELL INSPIRON 8200 might go a bit above your bedget but its a great notebook and works well with linux. I am running gentoo on it have nvidia working properly , a USB mouse working properly and also 802.11 PCMCIA wirless ethernet working great. It works great with Redhat and even FreeBSD I've personally all these on it. i i'm also not sure how u'll be able to fit a dvd writer into that budget they are still quite expensive in India
i wouldnt suggest ibm notebooks because they a lot let features for a lot more money. also simple things like my dell had a track pad and a joystick the ibm laptops dont have the trackpads
regards Vikram (http://www.vicramresearch.com)