There was an article on either Slashdot or MandrakeForum about a month ago about a vendor shipping with Mandrake 8.1. I think it was HP, but I'm not sure. BTW, everytime someone here mentions laptops, I mention the HP Omnibook 500. It's the only HP laptop worth looking at, and probably the most solid slimtop I've used. And it runs linux great, no funky stuff to get it working (like shared sound/video memory on Sony laptops). And, it has blue LED's. :) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Paulsen [mailto:mpaulsen at charter.net] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 8:03 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Laptop vendors 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 (snip) _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list