From: "Thomas Ward" <tward@bright.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: laptops
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:00:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006701c09ad8$83ac6260$21128fd1@tward> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01bc01c09ab9$fdcd6ea0$1f00a8c0@t2x5a2>
Well, I know what you mean about laptops being hard to find. I have seen in
Computer Shopper once and a while IBM laptops that come with Red Hat
preinstalled rather than Windows.
You might want to glance through one of those, and just see if they have any
more iin there. The Linux laptops are just not really being pushed by the
mainstream computer resellers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Moore" <admin@bmoore.yi.org>
To: <blindtech@topica.com>
Cc: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: laptops
> Greetings all. Okay, finally am breaking down and hunting for a laptop
> computer . I want to use this machine to boot both linux and windows. I
> suspect windows will have no real problems since I will probably get a
> machine with it loaded whether or not I want their windows. However, I
have
> had bad experiences with other machines in the past which required lots of
> drivers and would only work with the OF.a.m version of windows from that
> particular laptop company. would like to avoid this if at all possible
> since I will probably nuke the disk as the first thing and put a standard
> version of win98 se and create a Linux partition running slackware or
redhat
> or something like that. would like as little strange hardware as
possible.
> I really like like the keyboards on the thinkpad computers but they are
> pretty costly and i.b.m sometimes has strange hardware configurations at
> least on the desktop machines I have worked with. Would be most
interested
> in people's experience with notebook computers. I don't mind spending a
> little more money for a good machine but really want to avoid proprietary
> software and sound video chips etc. any thoughts viaprivate mail would be
> much appreciated.
>
> thanks. Brian.
>
> home e-mail: admin@bmoore.yi.org
> work e-mail: bmoore@frontiercomputing.on.ca
> msn messenger brianrm@home.com
>
> tel (416) 462-0294.
>
> thanks. Brian.
>
>
>
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laptops Brian Moore
` laptops Jacob Schmude
` laptops William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123
` laptops Jacob Schmude
` Thomas Ward [this message]
laptops awesome-dave1
` laptops Jacob Schmude
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