[ale] Opinions on lightweight laptops?

[fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man]

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 15:06 -0400, Dan Lambert wrote:

> I am using an IBM (now Lenovo) T41, and using Ubuntu Dapper on it. It is 
> the only OS installed, and except for some little bitty piddly stuff, it 
> works great. Ubuntu recognized and correctly installed all of the hardware.
> 
> The piddly stuff is that, essentially, the Windoze keys for going 
> forward and back while browsing web pages don't work. Aside from that, I 
> have no real issues with running Ubuntu on the machine. It is reliable, 
> fast, and does everything I need it to.
> 
> It has the 14" LCD, and that is entirely workable for me. If you need a 
> larger image area, you can always use an external monitor when you're 
> sitting at your desk coding.
> 
> Dan


Not sure how much my system weighs in at, but I have a Toshiba Satellite
A55-S1064 ($599 from WalMart.com).  Comes with XP SP2, of course, but
both Dapper and Edgy work on it, detecting all hardware out of the box,
and enabling 3D, Wifi, and everything.

    ? Mike

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