Re: [PLUG] Laptop Recommendations

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 10:42  AM, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
> I really think you want an iBook :-) The LUG I am president of
> (LUG/IP - Linux Users Group/In Princeton (NJ)) has about 5 people with
> them and we all love 'em.
>
> Seriously, I'd recommend one if you didn't need to run XP, but since 
> you
> said you do, check out Emperor Linux (www.emperorlinux.net). They sell
> "big-name" lap tops with Linux installed. They may cost you a few extra
> bucks (to cover their free one year support that I have heard people 
> rave
> about) then if you bought them elsewhere. Of course, if you don't want 
> to
> pay the extra funds, you could check out their web site to see what 
> they
> are selling, and you can see what you can get Linux to run on. I have 
> no
> personal experience with them, but they seem to know what they are 
> doing.

The new Powerbook is even better -- just run XP under Virtual PC for 
whatever applications you need. The kinds of things that you need a 
REAL XP box for (like lots of serial ports) don't exist on laptops 
anyway.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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