[PLUG] Linux-friendly Laptops On EBay?

Sean Whitney sean at fork.com
Thu Jul 17 21:44:02 UTC 2003


Not used but I shopped around recently for a laptop that had similiar specs 
(mine included 1400x1050 screen resolution) and finally settled on the ze5165 
for about $1300 at bestbuy.  A little heavy but very capable.


Sean

On Thursday 17 July 2003 12:44 pm, 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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