[Off topic] List of current notebooks
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Wed Aug 6 17:33:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:09:28AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>All,
>
>You may have been reading my saga about troubles with laptop computers.
> Yesterday I put together a fairly comprehensive list of current
>notebooks that may be of interest to some of you. My basic requirements
>were SXGA+ screen (1400x1050) or greater and integrated 802.11g. Dell
>is left off of the list because the two Inspiron 8500s that they sent me
>both randomly freeze and this is a well documented problem.
>
>Anyhow, the list is here:
>
>http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/Notebooks-20030806-0956.pdf (47 KiB)
>
>
>I choose the $1949 Gateway 450X. However, if 802.11G is not a
>requirement, then the $1678 Toshiba Satelite Pro 6100 is surely the way
>to go, as it is a preassembled unit that ships the same day it is ordered.
FWIW, I came very close to buying a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 before I
was scammed out of the money for the laptop that I thought I was buying.
It seemed like a nice system.
cgf
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