[ale] Laptop Recommendations

[Eric Z. Ayers]

I had good luck buying a laptop through Promox Systems.  It came with
Linux (Red Hat) installed for a nice price.  

-Eric.

Matt Perry writes:
 > Hello everyone.  I've decided that I'm going to buy a laptop to run Linux
 > but I want to make sure I get something that's going to have support and
 > drivers for it.
 > 
 > My main requirements are to be able to have at least 64 megs, CDROM drive,
 > at least one PCMCIA slot (for ethernet/modem), and an active matrix
 > color screen that can do at least 1024x768 in 32k colours.  I'm not that
 > concerned about speed (a p133 or equivilent would be plenty fast), nor
 > battery life.  I'm getting this more for the portability than to actually
 > use while in transit.  There is usually AC everywhere I go.
 > 
 > Of course it doesn't need to have 64 megs and lots of HD space and VRAM
 > out of the box.  As long as I can add it.
 > 
 > I have been reading the Linux Laptop page and reading about people's
 > different experiences there, but I thought I would ask here on the list to
 > see if anyone has a laptop similar to what I'm looking for that has had a 
 > good experience.
 > 
 > Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com
 > "After ecstasy, laundry." - Zen writing