I'm finally shopping for a decent laptop, and will of course be putting Debian on it. There is one in particular that I have in mind that seems to have a pretty decent bang for the buck; the Acer Aspire AS5003WLMi-XPH.
However, since I am buying via mail order instead of locally, I am obviously unable to give it a test drive with a live CD distro like Mepis or Knoppix. Here's the specs on it... http://ostg.pricegrabber.com/search_techspecs_full.php/masterid=17993603 Would this be suitable for a Debian notebook? Also, what with it having an AMD 64 bit CPU, I would most likely want to run a 64 bit kernel. Are there a decent amount of apps available for 64 bit Linux? I particularly need stuff like OpenOffice, Firefox, Evolution, GAIM, GIMP, XINE, etc (the usual package of stuff for a general purpose system). Are there 64 bit versions of these available? And if not, will the 32-bit versions work on a 64 bit architecture? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
