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Topic: Cheap Laptops for DSL install, Suggestions?

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newby

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Posted: July 01 2006,14:23

I'd like suggestions for cheap laptops for DSL install.

USB 2.0 and WiFi would be nice.

Small, only slightly larger than 8 1/2 x 11 would be nice.

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Posted: July 02 2006,04:42

DSL works on the IBM Thinkpad 385xd(I paid $30 bucks for mine) Im still working on the graphics tho'

Deumex

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Posted: July 02 2006,23:49

Hi newby,

I have an old Compaq notebook, an Armada 4210T. 233 Mhz, 96MB RAM, two cardbus PCMCIA slots, docking station with CDROM and additional battery.
Have installed a noname 2-port USB 2.0 card (works fine) and a Fiberline WLAN card with Marvell chip (still working on this, but ndiswrapper accepts it, so some detail work should do the job).
It is very small, about 22 x 29 cm (Sorry, but I'm metric).

I think nearly any notebook from the Compaq 15xx, 17xx, 41xx or 42xx series should be okay for DSL. Or any other with similar technical data.

I paid 100,- for mine 1 1/2 years ago.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that this little Compaq is fanless, so it makes nearly no noise...

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DaveJ45

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Posted: July 03 2006,18:58

meltdown

There is an old version of xfree86 that supports some of the laptop video chipsets that the newer versions do not.

It takes a little tweaking on the configuration to get it all set up properly, but once that is done, you get a much better graphics display than the standard xwindow options packaged with DSL.

I'll check through my notes and see if I can remember how I did this on two of 'minimal' laptops.

Try doing a forum search for xfree and laptop, which is how I managed to trace down the info to get this done.

DaveJ45

JustoTech

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Posted: July 04 2006,08:32

Try the Armada M series. Most of them are in the P3 range and very small and light-weight.

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