Re: [tlug] Almost perfect laptop

[Walter Hansen <gandalf@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> Walter, Stephen, Al,
>
> Walter said:
> > Is it really that bad there? I'm in the US and on my second $400 (40man
> > en) HP laptop. My new one is a AMD dual core. Both of them were 1280x800.
>
> Sounds pretty good.
>
> Is that the HP Pavilion dv2700t series? That's the cheapest one I could 
> find on the net, and it was 700 US$, and it included Vista.
>
> Were you able to buy without Windows?
>
> Your description sounds very much like the kind of thing I'm after.

Ack that was on sale from a local US store (best buy). They came with 
windows installed. The current one is a Pavillion dv6000, the older one 
is also a dv6000, but the newer one has better stuff.  They probably 
normally go for $500-600. I'm not really sure how they do under linux 
though so you should read up before getting one or I could boot up 
knoppix and see if it finds everything nicely. I've never really used 
linux for a desktop machine, but have eight or so servers. I love the HP 
laptops, they seem a lot nicer and cheaper than the competitors. Both 
have the wide screen 1280x800 display.