[ale] Averatec

[Paul Cartwright]

On Tue January 24 2006 2:42 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > The last thing I need is a Dell laptop. ?I looked at emperor and
> > if I don't want Dell then I'm kinda screwed in terms of low price.
> > ?I wished they sold HP.
>
> Actually, I'm with you on the Dell, although a lot of folks seem to
> like them. ?I posted a while back about the hp laptop I've got. ?I
> purchased it for $499 a year ago at Christmas. ?All works well,
> expect if you attempt to put a card in the mini-pci slot. ?The hp
> bios disallows anything but their hardware. :(

actually, I have a nice new Dell XPS M140.  1G memory, 100 G HD, DVD 
Dual layer burner, and dual boot, XP and SUSE 10.0 . I even got the 
Intel 2915 wireless to work nicely with both users on XP and Linux. 


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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800