[CS-FSLUG] A little advice, please

['Mash]

On 4/30/05, Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:
> My original message was trapped because I use the wrong sending address. I
> was lamenting the death of my desktop box. From the messages, I gather the
> CPU is getting marginal. I've seen the symptoms before. So I put that
> aside, and am now restricted to the laptop featured in my latest Ofb.biz
> article.
> 
> Now, I'm grateful to God this thing still works well after all these
> years. Frank Bax sent me a 4GB harddrive to fit this laptop because the
> other was dead, and just in time. Still, that's not much room, even with
> the spare requirements of FreeBSD. And this old Gateway Solo with 266Mhz
> CPU and 160MB of RAM is just not a lot to work with.
> 
> So I'm saving up for a newer laptop, because it fits the way I work better
> than a desktop machine. I may even get help from a friend who supports my
> ministry, and I'll always accept donations, because my computers belong to
> God. I know that there are some pretty good used laptops out there, and
> anything from a 500Mhz on up would be big leap in performance. Googling
> brings back way too much, and I have no experience purchasing used
> equipment, especially online.
> 
> The question, then: Whom would you trust as a vendor of used laptops? I
> will mention in passing that IBMs are favored with BSD devs, and Compaq/HP
> are reputed the worst choices. My experience with this and another Gateway
> makes me view them favorably. In general, the FOSS community likes the
> response from the big 3 Japanese brands. Given that, I'd like to read your
> comments on what you would do in my place.
> 
> --
> Ed Hurst
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Ed, 

I am currently using an IBM Thinkpad X20/P3 600/ 384 MB RAM, running
Debian/2.4.27

I have had only one problem with this laptop, Kernel 2.6 does not support my
network card at all hence why I am running 2.4.27. Other then that it
has been supperb. It really depends on what you are wanting to do in
it. I am as we speaking
installing PHP5 for some development.
It is a joy to use and I only paid £400.00 off eBay for it. (refurbished model)
Oh also it an ultralight and so I take it around with me everywhere.

'Mash