On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 07:05 -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > Thinking about getting a used laptop and loading sarge into it. I was > wondering what specs I need to look for
It really depends on what sort of performance you're looking for. I bought a secondhand Compaq Armada m700: Pentium-III 1ghz, 256MB RAM, 20GB disc, ATi graphics, 1024x768 display, 100mbit network and lucent 56k modem. It cost me the equivalent of about $500 USD, but you'd probably get it a lot cheaper if you're in the US/Canada or UK/Europe. I rand Sarge, Etch and later Sid on it without any problems. It's a very sturdy notebook, battery life is very good (around 4:30-5:00) and performance is strong too. The only issue I had was getting the lucent driver installed (ltmodem) - there is a debian package, but it's executing a script that hangs, and I couldn't around that. But that was probably just a mix of incompetence and impatience on my side, because I'm running SUSE 9.3 on it now, and it sorted out the modem all by itself - works like a bomb! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
