On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

What brands would these be? I am currently helping a friend find a new laptop, and would love to avoid the likes ofd Dell, Toshiba, Sony, etc.

These brands seem to change with the seasons. They have two things in common: they are mostly made in Taiwan, and they come 'bare bones' w/o anything excepting psu and battery. I do not know where to get these in Canada, here they appear on specials in the local newspapers etc almost every week. They are usually stuffed with hdds etc by local small integrators and you can up/downgrade at will. I will try to get some names for you next week. The quality is more than reasonable. Whatever happened with Sony Vaios and Crusoe ? I thought those would be very compatible with linux ? No more ? Peter -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml