http://linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
IBM Thinkpad 600 [Refurbished]
Price: $749.00

No idea if it's a reasonable price for what you get.

At 05:39 PM 10/26/01, you wrote:
>I'm looking around for options in terms of buying a notebook without
>paying the Microsoft tax.  I've run into the following difficulties:
>         * VA Linux got out of the hardware business
>         * Penguin Computing doesn't have any notebooks
>         * TuxTops dropped its business to QLITech (which now has only two
>~$1650 models)
>         * Dell says they can't do it
>         * Gateway (Ha!) nevermind
>         * IBM supposedly has two models with Caldera preinstalled, but their
>online sales site doesn't match the information on their linux
>pages, and I'm not sure I want to pay that much
>         * Compaq doesn't sell any laptops with Linux

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