Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 13:15 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: James Gray wrote: Digital Star (http://www.digitalstar.com.au) also have OS-less laptops on offer. From their main page, follow the link to BTO Notebooks or simply go here: http://www.digitalstar.com.au/_PowerNoteComparisonChart.aspx OK, they have some nice looking machines and the no OS option is $120 cheaper than windows ex-pee home. Now if only they would also pre-install Linux so I knew everything worked :-(. I own a CL50 from Digital Star. The only parts I've never had working are the SD card reader and the winmodem. I think both can be gotten to work if you care enough. The network chip is a bog-standard realtek part. It's got a centrino chipset, with Radeon 9000M (which Ubuntu supported out of the box) I'm pretty happy with the hardware, although the disk IO is slow. The screen is nice @ 1400x1050. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)
You could also try EYO Technologies (link below) as they have a number of laptops without an OS. I don't know if they would be willing to install your choice of Linux, but it won't hurt to ask. http://www.eyo.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gnuthad On 10 Sep 2005 at 15:22, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Howard, I came across this site just a few days ago: http://www.vgcomputing.com.au/about.html Good luck with it all :) Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)
You could also try EYO Technologies (link below) as they have a number of laptops without an OS. I don't know if they would be willing to install your choice of Linux, but it won't hurt to ask. http://www.eyo.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gnuthad On 10 Sep 2005 at 15:22, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Howard, I came across this site just a few days ago: http://www.vgcomputing.com.au/about.html Good luck with it all :) Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:22, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Howard, I came across this site just a few days ago: http://www.vgcomputing.com.au/about.html Good luck with it all :) Regards, Patrick Digital Star (http://www.digitalstar.com.au) also have OS-less laptops on offer. From their main page, follow the link to BTO Notebooks or simply go here: http://www.digitalstar.com.au/_PowerNoteComparisonChart.aspx Then start spec-ing out the lappy of your choosing. FWIW, I've never dealt with this company but I know people who have, and were happy with the service and products. Cheers, James -- BOFH excuse #82: Yeah, yo mama dresses you funny and you need a mouse to delete files. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)
James Gray wrote: Digital Star (http://www.digitalstar.com.au) also have OS-less laptops on offer. From their main page, follow the link to BTO Notebooks or simply go here: http://www.digitalstar.com.au/_PowerNoteComparisonChart.aspx OK, they have some nice looking machines and the no OS option is $120 cheaper than windows ex-pee home. Now if only they would also pre-install Linux so I knew everything worked :-(. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ The main confusion about C++ is that its practitioners think it is simultaneously a high and low level language when in reality it is good at neither. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)
On Monday 12 September 2005 13:15, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: James Gray wrote: Digital Star (http://www.digitalstar.com.au) also have OS-less laptops on offer. From their main page, follow the link to BTO Notebooks or simply go here: http://www.digitalstar.com.au/_PowerNoteComparisonChart.aspx OK, they have some nice looking machines and the no OS option is $120 cheaper than windows ex-pee home. Now if only they would also pre-install Linux so I knew everything worked :-(. The basic CPU+mainboard+display stuff will work for basically any laptop (in my experience). The trick is to take a Knoppix CD etc into the shop and do an lspcibut that kinda defeats the purpose of buying online eh? Give them a call and see if they can send you the output of an lspci etc. You might be surprised :) James -- Them as has, gets. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)
elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Howard, I came across this site just a few days ago: http://www.vgcomputing.com.au/about.html Interesting to note with this mob is that getting a laptop with Debian costs you $49 extra, but windows is included anyway. Ie you still pay the microsoft tax. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ life is too long to know C++ well -- Erik Naggum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)
Hi Howard, I came across this site just a few days ago: http://www.vgcomputing.com.au/about.html Good luck with it all :) Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
