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Topic: Late model low-end laptops, Looking for dsl compatibility

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Posted: Dec. 29 2004,17:19

I'm looking to get myself a new laptop at the low end of the price spectrum in the very near future and of course want dsl to run on it.

I would really appreciate any pointers towards known dsl-compatible current cheapy models.

Thanks in advance for any info & best wishes of the Season...

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Phil
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Posted: Dec. 30 2004,15:46

Well, I just installed 0.9.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 410CDT, which has a Pentium 90, 40 megs RAM and an 800 meg hard drive. It's a little sluggish at times but totally functional. Sound works fine after tweaking a bit, decent network performance. Going price on ebay seems to be well under $100.

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Posted: Dec. 30 2004,18:47

I have 9.0.1 installed on a ThinkPad 380XD...233MHz proc, 64meg RAM, 1 Gig HDD. Everything installs and works fine. I too have to tweak my sound card but it runs pretty damn fast for such an outdated machine. I would also add that 2 (very small) sticking points with me have been that my PS2 mouse won't scroll and I can't get my serial port to work. But those are hardly reasons to scrap the ONLY Linux distro I have been able to successfully pop in the CD and be up-and-running in about 15 minutes.

Good Luck!

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Posted: Dec. 30 2004,21:58

Thx mucho for your responses; sorry perhaps I should have been more explicit.

By 'new' and 'late model' I meant new retail model ie not an oldish secondhand laptop. This is because (a) I will need it as my main dual boot machine for some time into the future, and (b) secondhand bargain laptops are hard to come by in my part of the world.

But your posts are still helpful, since I intend to get an older second laptop going with dsl in the near future -- but this new one is the priority at this time. Your info will no doubt be useful for others searching the board. So thanks.

Given up on Amilo Celerons (other thread) - - now considering a HP Compaq nx9105 AMD 3000 512/60 (which appears to be good value). From google it appears this will run Mandrake10, Suse 9.1 or Gentoo with fiddling, and will boot from the Gentoo livecd. Nothing about knoppix/dsl though.

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Mechcozmo

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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,05:37

I hear 486 based laptops are going for dirt cheap right now...

I think that any laptop made in the last 3, 4 years would do great if you had 128MB of RAM in it. Enough for a RAM disk of DSL and some extra for whatever you might need.

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