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On Monday 23 July 2007 23:14, Mick wrote: |
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> If your local Dell distributor can't/won't get it for you, can't you |
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> import it from the US? Of course, it may take a tad longer to arrive |
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> and you will have to pay some import tax. |
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I had been considering the Inspiron 1520 which I believe is (or will be) |
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available in Linux versions. But the waiting time is approximately a |
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month - too long - prices can change (go down) a fair bit in a month. |
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Another model I considered was the Aspire 5572AWXMI which is apparently |
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discontinued but had been available from some SE Asia outlets |
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pre-installed with Linpus so driver compatibility shouldn't be a problem. |
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In the end I went for a Thinkpad Z61. I've yet to install gentoo on it - |
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still cleaning the windoze partition, removing useless programs and |
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shrinking/backup the partition etc. But I've tried a number of livecds |
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and all the major components are supported (wifi, cardreader, usb, lan, |
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video, pc card, modem, sound, bluetooth). The only thing I'm not sure |
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about is the IEEE1394, I don't have any devices to test it, but dmesg |
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reports it's "working". |
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Crayon |
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