Thanks a lot for your suggestion, Brian and Michael. I am going abroad for conferences since the end of September. I found there is some information useful in http://www.linux-laptop.net. There is a detailed information about how to install linux with WinXP on a 2700. I will consider whether that's suitable for in my case. Thanks agin.
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