[PLUG] Linux-friendly Laptops On EBay?

[Greg R.]

One option is Dell Financial Services - they sell refurbished laptops on 
eBay, without an OS. Most of them are P3's, but I think you can get a 
better processor if you aren't in too much of a hurry. And DVD's are 
standard with a lot of them.
Jason Van Cleve wrote:

>Can anyone who shops EBay suggest a few good laptop models/series that I
>might find there nowadays, so I know what to look for?  This would be a
>Linux-friendly development machine with at least a 1.4 GHz processor. It
>will need to run a database, apache, a servlet engine, a Web browser and
>an IDE all at once, so it'll need plenty of RAM (though I can probably
>buy that, depending on the cost of the computer, etc.)
>
>I need a new laptop, but I've never bought a REAL one, nor ever run
>Linux on one, so I could use a bit of guidance.  I'll need a WiFi card,
>and DVD (and I don't want to have to install Winders).
>
>Thanks a-plenty,
>
>--Jason Van Cleve
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