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
