I recently found out that there’s a laptop for only USD$150! The more interesting part is it’s running Fedora Linux. The specs of the laptop as follows:
Intel® Celeron 1.5 GHz CPU
14″ Widescreen X-bright LCD
256 MB Ram memory
40 GB Hard Drive
802.11g Wireless LAN
Optimized Linux operating system
Pre-installed office and multimedia applications
I think it’s difficult to find even [...]
I’ve been using thinkpads since 2005. I have used R50, R50e, R51, R51e, R52 and lastly R60 models along the way. All the models served me well during that time, they never failed, the hardware was just tough for a guy like me.
I’ve tried almost all kinds of linux distributions on them, I even give [...]
Last month Dell announced their partnership with Ubuntu, now finally the first batch of PCs featuring preloaded Ubuntu Linux is being sold at Dell’s Open site. So, let’s look at what they are offering? Currently they have 2 desktop PCs and 1 laptop. Desktop configurations as follows:
Dimension E520 N – $599
Intel® Core™2 Duo [...]
Recently my company bought a few laptops from Compaq. Two of them are Compaq Presario V3010AU. The laptop comes with AMD Turion Dual Core CPU which was very new to me. To this day I still have to deal with only Intel processors and specifically IBM Thinkpads. So, it was quite interesting and a challenge [...]
Ok, after my first post on my brand new blog, let me write about my beloved laptop.
It’s a Thinkpad R60. It has Intel Centrino Duo T2300 1.66GHz, 2MB cache, 667MHz, 945GM, 1256MB RAM, 60GB HDD and I upgraded to DVD-RW. It has no bluetooth or infrared, but it has – as any of the decent [...]