Re: [vox-tech] Cheap laptop
On 07/12/2012 08:31 PM, Richard Harke wrote: My wife is looking for a cheap, used laptop. It doesn't need to have a large drive or a lot of memory. It would need to be able to run linux. Does anyone here have an old machine they would like to sell? (Reply off list) Richard Harke How old? Any particular feature set or price range. I've been quite impressed with what you can get for $300 new from newegg, fry's etc. That said Tiger Direct also sells off lease (rented to business) 3 year old machines (Med to high end Thinkpads) starting around $200-300 too. Enjoy, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Cheap laptop
Old is not important. Cheap is. Obviously, with the cheapest new machines running around $250, I would want to beat that by a good margin. Need to have a working network interface, wired or Wi-Fi supported by linux. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.comwrote: On 07/12/2012 08:31 PM, Richard Harke wrote: My wife is looking for a cheap, used laptop. It doesn't need to have a large drive or a lot of memory. It would need to be able to run linux. Does anyone here have an old machine they would like to sell? (Reply off list) Richard Harke How old? Any particular feature set or price range. I've been quite impressed with what you can get for $300 new from newegg, fry's etc. That said Tiger Direct also sells off lease (rented to business) 3 year old machines (Med to high end Thinkpads) starting around $200-300 too. Enjoy, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Cheap laptop
Richard Harke paleopeng...@gmail.com writes: Old is not important. Cheap is. Obviously, with the cheapest new machines running around $250, I would want to beat that by a good margin. Need to have a working network interface, wired or Wi-Fi supported by linux. Looks like a pretty nice one for $400 on woot today. I haven't looked into it's linux compatibility though. -- Wes Hardaker My Pictures: http://capturedonearth.com/ My Thoughts: http://pontifications.hardakers.net/ ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Cheap laptop
On 07/13/2012 07:23 AM, Wes Hardaker wrote: Richard Harke paleopeng...@gmail.com writes: Old is not important. Cheap is. Obviously, with the cheapest new machines running around $250, I would want to beat that by a good margin. Need to have a working network interface, wired or Wi-Fi supported by linux. Looks like a pretty nice one for $400 on woot today. I haven't looked into it's linux compatibility though. I got my parents a new Lenovo with iCore3 for $379 last month. Runs Ubuntu perfectly (Webcam works out of the box) So we're talking about a machine to run a web browser and not much else? I know of a few friends (including myself) that have circa 2002-2003 Celeron/amd machines lying around if you're interested in something like that. They were running Ubuntu probably up until 2008-2009, no idea how well they would handle the newer releases. Thanks, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
