I bought a totally sweet Acer TravelMate 8200 for $330 from GraysOnline. It's got 2GB RAM with an Intel Core Duo 2GHZ. It's super quick. Even has a dual layer DVD burner and a 256MB ATI video card.
I just put Hardy Heron on it and it all worked fine. Except for the wireless, which required me to apt-get install linux-ubuntu-modules-.... The wireless light still doesn't come on with the wireless button, but it does turn the wireless on and off.
I'm not even going to bother dual-booting Windows XP on this laptop. That's partly because I'm so amazingly elite, but mostly because all I do on Windows is play Rome: Total War and it's hurting my social/love life.
RTW doesn’t count as a social life? Bossing around all those little guys?
ben Thurley / 11:40am / 29 August 2008
I doubt they’d count me as friends. I’d have to demonstrate a whole lot more concern for their safety before they’d want to sit down and have a beer with me.
Ryan / 12:50pm / 29 August 2008
But if it’s for the greater good…
ben Thurley / 3:48pm / 29 August 2008
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious”
Miles / 12:17pm / 30 August 2008
So true.
Ryan / 4:04pm / 30 August 2008