On Apr 12, 2005 6:34 AM, Dong Calmada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Next week, I'm going to secure a personal loan (very affordable) from my > bank. My purpose: Buy myself a new notebook. For the amount of P40t, I > guess, I'll go for ECS A530. I already saw the model in one computer shop > and I can say it rocks. The price (with Windows XP and floppy drive) is > P37,000.00. With 1 year warranty, the gadget is 1GHZ and has 256MB memory, > 40GB HD, DVDROM/CDRW combo, wireless LAN, 4 USB ports. My only complaint is > that it does not have an infrared port.
The ECS A530 only has a 600MHz Transmeta Crusoe TM5600 processor. Afaik it's the A531 that has an 800MHz Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 chip (which can be scaled to 1GHz via LongRun). I was looking for the A531 last year (before I gave up and bought my laptop in August). The A531 also has WLAN features (uses a prism3 chipset for the mini-pci wifi adaptor). I'm not sure if it's still available this year (it was tough to find last year - it's always out of stock back then). > On Apr 11, 2005 11:07 PM, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The best laptop for Linux imho is still the IBM Thinkpad T42p though :) > > I'm also an IBM Thinkpad fan. If I could buy that at around P40T, then I'll > choose that option. Or, if you can recommend shops that sell Thinkpads at > around P40T (refurbished?), please let me/us know. My preferred specs are: > P3 or P4 or M, 256MB memory, DVDROM/CDRW combo, 40GB HD, wireless LAN, IR > port, at least 2 USB ports, with or without a floppy drive. I dunno if I'm just lucky - but I got mine via Buy and Sell (Disclaimer: I don't work for them). You might be able to chance upon some companies that are unloading their stocks in favor of newer models (that's how I got mine - and a good deal it was :D). For the wireless LAN requirement - most laptops within the past four years have mini-PCI slots wherein you could insert a wifi card, although not all have IRDA ports. You can go the path of getting USB IRDA dongles though, as well as wifi cardbus adaptors. PCCorner at megamall sells MSI PCI/PCMCIA/USB wifi adaptors that use the Ralink RT2500 chipset (has GPL'd Linux drivers - although the USB wifi adaptors don't work in Linux) for P1600. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
