best place to buy laptop?

[Mel Wilson]

James Knott wrote:
> D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>>
>> Notebooks usually get obsolete fairly quickly.  One can justify
>> replacing a cheap one more quickly than an expensive one.  So I lean
>> towards cheap ones.  On the other hand, if you are going to use it a
>> lot, you might get your money's worth out of a better notebook quickly
>> enough.
>>    
> I have an 8 year old ThinkPad R31 that's still going strong. [ ... ]

Hasn't been 8 years yet, but I'm getting good service from an 
HP/Compaq nc6000 that happened to come from Laptop Closeouts.  It's 
running stock Ubuntu 9.04 with the usual features, sound, wireless, 
ethernet, etc.

	Mel.

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