Re: Notebook

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:52:48 -0600
From: davehamilton@alltel.net
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: Notebook

Hi

Dell will sell with Linux loaded or not

Dave
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> Date: 2007/02/20 Tue PM 01:45:04 CST
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> Subject: Notebook
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> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:11:08 -0600
> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: Notebook
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> I am thinking of buying a notebook so I can sit in bed and run the
> telescopes.  There are days when it is hard to get out of bed.  Still,
> stuff needs to be done with the computers if I have run the night
> before.  I just want a bare bones notebook that will run well off an AC
> adaptor.  I will install Linux on it.  It needs an ethernet connection
> and not much else.  So far I have failed to find a good source for such
> a thing that does not have Windows installed on it.  I hate to pay the
> Bill tax.  It needs to be known to work with linux.  I run Mandriva
> linux.
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> Anyone have any suggestions for a good supplier?
>
> Tom Droeg
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>   Thomas F. Droege
>   droege@fastmail.fm
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