[Retrieved]RE: recommendation for laptop with Linux

[Garrett Goebel]

I considered picking one up. Others have mentioned the obvious necessity of
upgrading the RAM. I'd already look it up on pricewatch:

512MB of 200pin SO-DIMM 266MHz of name brand DDR RAM will set you back ~$95

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at kclug.org [mailto:owner-kclug at kclug.org] On Behalf Of Hal
Duston
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:52 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: [Retrieved]RE: recommendation for laptop with Linux

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
> &typ e=19&dept=3944&path=0%3A3944%3A3951#long_descr
>

It looks like an ECS A535+ with a different color scheme.

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?CategoryID=3&TypeI
D=13&DetailID=421&MenuID=18&LanID=0

http://www.ecs.com.tw/extra/a535/a535nb.html

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Hal