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Linux Laptops
Bazoukas:
I dont see the need of you bying a new Laptop unless you have money to spare.
I bought a used Laptop inspiron3500. It runs a 356 celeron. It came with Win95. I installed RH 7.3 in it and it runs beautifully (both on Gnome and KDE).
THe onl problem I had was with the Sound card. But that is fixable by a)downloading a patch or b)Changing the IRQ setting.
Calum:
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Hello all, i am thinking about bidding for this:
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YOU ARE BIDDING FOR MY DAUGHTERS COLLEGE LAPTOP.IT IS A CITYNOTE GREEN 751.(I THINK ITS BASED ON A DELL, BUT NOT SURE.) WWW.CITYNOTE.NET. IT HAS A INTEL PENTIUM 75 MHZ PROSSESOR. 540MB HARD DISC.COLOUR SCREEN. SOUND & GRAPHICS.INTERNAL FLOPPY DRIVE.DOCKING PORT.RS PORT.CRT PORT.PRINTER PORT EXTERNAL KEYBOARD PORT. EXTRA MEMORY SLOTS. LOADED WITH WINDOWS 3.11 FOR WORKGROUPS AND MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR DEMO PURPOSES, BUYER RESPONSIBLE FOR LICENCE.IT HAS ALL PORT COVERS, AND BATTERY HOLDS A REASONABLE CHARGE, IT HAS BEEN WELL LOOKED AFTER AND IN EXELENT CONDITION. VERY MODERN LOOKING AND COMES WITH ORIGINAL CARRY CASE AND MAINS CHARGER..... NOW THE DOWN SIDE BITS...THE DC TERMINAL HAS BEEN REPAIRED AND ITS BEEN PUT BACK A BIT SCEW WIF, BUT THIS DOES NOT EFFECT PERFORMANCE JUST COSMETIC, AND THE ON OFF BUTTON SOMETIMES STICKS IN WHEN SWITCHING OFF, A COUPLE OF PRESSES ARE NEEDED SOMETIMES. AND THE DOCKING STATION COVER HAS LOST PART OF ITS HINGE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO E/MAIL ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS, AND I WILL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM. HAPPY BIDDING. On 12-Nov-02 at 08:55:56 GMT, seller added the following information:
THE ON OFF BUTTON HAS NOW BEEN FIXED AND IS WORKING PERFECTLY.
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Any thoughts? basically i'm asking for links to some sort of database that will tell me how compatible the sound/video cards are and so on, with linux. it is a pentium so i know that mandrake 9.0 will be able to be installed on it. Also, i can set up a dual boot with windows 3.11 (!)
thanks, chaps.
edit - well this page and this page are the only ones i can really see on google about this laptop, well actually this one's not quite the same, and they at least suggest that red hat 5 will run on it graphically...
[ November 15, 2002: Message edited by: [calum@localhost]$ ]
Calum:
also, any advice on these too?
first one:
the description for this one says:
quote:Description
Pentium Laptop
Power Supply Included
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hmm...
and another:
quote:Digital HiNote VP Pentium Colour Laptop with CD & Floppy Multimedia (Lot 94)
Colour, Intel Pentium 200 MMX, 16Mb Base Ram, Touch pad Mouse, CD Rom Drive & Floppy Disk Drive, Screen complete no cracks, faint line on right side of screen
Laptop
* External VGA
* External Keyboard or Mouse
* Communications Port For Modem etc.
* Printer Port
* 1 x PCMCIA
* 1 Infra Red, 1 USB
* External Sound Ports
* Trackball Mouse
* Docking Support
Parts missing
* Battery & Battery slot Cover
* Hard Disk & Caddy
* Memory Slot Cover
* Mains Adapter - 19v, 2.4amp
Overall Worth Rebuilding If You Have Spare Time
Basic tests run and past on all. Power on test OK.
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This one i should be able to look up myself, but as always, if anybody knows of any quirks...
Of course there are a lot more of this sort of thing on eBay, does anybody know a good way to check how compatible a particular laptop is with linux other than just typing the model into google with the word 'linux' appended?
Thanks...
Master of Reality:
cool.... i was gonna post something about finding Linux Laptops...
Calum:
please do! these are all windows 3 or windows 95 laptops to my knowledge, so i think i have to BUY ONE before i know if it's a 'linux laptop' unfortunately...
hey, what's the difference between windows 3.11 and windows 95?
the difference is 91.89...
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