[ale] Upgrade Time

[Wandered Inn]

Douglas Bridges wrote:
> 
> Well, it is upgrade time, so I have a couple of questions that I was hoping
> could be answered.
> 
> First, does anyone have a good suggestion for a laptop that costs $3000 or
> less, runs Linux well, and uses a Trackpoint(eraser head thing). I am
> heading off to law school in the fall and I need a good laptop to use.

First off, I don't know how much it cost, since the company paid for it,
but, I just upgraded to a Toshiba Tecra 8000, PII-366.  I've been very
pleased with it.  Everything works fine with Linux, except the internal
modem which is a winmodem.  There is a driver for this modem, but the
two times I tried it, it locked my box up hard, so I gave up and am
using a pcmcia modem now.  It has a neomagic video card which was
automatically recognized and setup with my Mandrake install. It has a
9gig drive.  It also has a trackpoint type of mouse.  You can
interchange the cdrom and floppy, or you can put the cdrom in the slot
and hang the floppy off of a port on the side.

I've got a docking station with it that has space to add an internal
drive. Has an external scsi port that works great with my scsi scanner. 
The docking station has a slot for the floppy, so when it's docked, you
have easy access to both the cdrom and floppy.

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