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Topic: ideal dsl system, the right components for dsl

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abbrew

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Posted: Feb. 28 2006,01:25

I would like to run dsl on a laptop that I'm thinking of buying. What would be good specs for the laptop to have? DSL is very light, right? I was hoping to not spend much money on this laptop.

AwPhuch

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Posted: Feb. 28 2006,04:55

Give us some info

If they system has more than lets say 200Mhz with 64Megs of RAM the system will run like a scalded ape!!!!!

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Posted: Mar. 01 2006,13:59

A number of people, myself included, are using Toshiba Satellite Pro 400 CDT series laptops witha great success. Mine is a 480CDT that has a 233mmx, 64MB RAM, a 4GB hard drive. It's a very nice laptop with a lot of great features and sold for around $2500 in it's day. Now you can pick one up on ebay for less than $200.

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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,13:54

my dad gave me a Toshiba 2595CDT with a "trashed" hard drive that had been running win98. booted up the DSL livecd, doctored up the hard drive using the linux disk tools, and now I have a rip-roaring DSL system. well, will be rip roaring when i get the damn wireless working.....But this little system is MUCH faster than my Dell Inspiron 5100 running XP.

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doobit

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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,14:06

FYI, if it has PCMCIA, then there are several good wireless systems available. I'm using an AT&T 6700g card that works great with the madwifi drivers.

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