recommendation for laptop with Linux

[Jim Herrmann]

Gigabit Ethernet, though.  I wonder if the 802.11b card is PCI?  And 
could you get the sound to work in Linux?  That's always the tricky 
part.  That, and you have to buy WinXP.  :-P

Thanks,
Jim

Brian Kelsay wrote:

>Found it.  But it only has 128MB of ram and it's shared with video.  Definitely will need an 
immediate upgrade to 256 or 512MB.  Unless you run a light-weight window manager.
>http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3163026&cat=3951&type=19&dept=3944&path=0%3A3
944%3A3951#long_descr
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>You have a link to a $600 Walmart laptop?  Is it crippled or something?  Cyrix processor?
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>If you've looked at Monitor Depot. Then you might want to consider the 
>Walmart $600 laptop. You'd get a new laptop in the same price range
>as Monitor Depot. Those IBM laptops they have are, IMHO, way overpriced.
>But they do refurbish them and guarantee them, IIRC. the only problem
>with the Wal-Mart laptop is you probably couldn't test it first with 
>Knoppix.
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