[ale] Laptop Recommendation

[Glynn Black]

I purchased a Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDT the first of this year for around
$2K. P133, 16M RAM but expandable to 128M, 1.34GIG HD. The screen is only
capable of 800x600x1.6M color though. Two PCMCIA slots and a non-PCMCIA modem.

To my surprise Red Hat 5.0 installed with ease, but I wiped Windows 95 and
installed Linux only. Metro-X came up with X-Windows first attempt. 1.34GIG is
a bit smallish for dual boot but poses no problem for my use. The floppy drive
is external but can be swapped out with the CDROM drive.

You may want to pay close attention to the LCD display on what you do purchase
for they are not all created equal. I suspect you'll have to dig a bit deeper
in the pocket for 1024x768. Would have preferred the floppy drive to
buildin but otherwise happy with my purchase. 

Glynn Black	blackgr at worldnet.att.net

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Matt Perry wrote:

> 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.
>