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From: Nemo on 14 Jun 2008 14:22
I am considering a laptop for my grown up daughter, Dell Inspiron 1525
seems to manage to do all she needs for Googlemail, web browsing and a
little word processing. It's also got a 160gig harddrive so I can get
it to dual boot whatever form of Microsoft it comes with, although I
went straight from windows to Slackware 7 and never went back so I
might need help in getting something to dual boot.

All comments, alternative recommendations, and suggestions welcomed.
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From: Will Kemp on 14 Jun 2008 14:36
Nemo wrote:
> I am considering a laptop for my grown up daughter, Dell Inspiron 1525
> seems to manage to do all she needs for Googlemail, web browsing and a
> little word processing. It's also got a 160gig harddrive so I can get
> it to dual boot whatever form of Microsoft it comes with, although I
> went straight from windows to Slackware 7 and never went back so I
> might need help in getting something to dual boot.
>
> All comments, alternative recommendations, and suggestions welcomed.

I'd suggest looking out for something that comes with XP - not vista!

Apart from that, it's likely to be quite straightforward, depending on
the exact model of the laptop. I don't know anything about the one
you're considering, so i can't comment on that. But Dells are generally
very good with Linux though, i believe.

I use a Thinkpad R61 (which i can thoroughly recommend, by the way) -
and it works fine, but when i bought it (in November last year) the
architecture was still quite new and it was a bit tricky getting
everything to work on it. It all works fine now though. So it may be
worth getting a slightly older laptop, rather than a very recent model,
if you want it to be as easy as possible - given choice and
comparability, of course.



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From: Trevor Best on 14 Jun 2008 17:54
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:36:54 +0100, Will Kemp wrote:

> Nemo wrote:
>> I am considering a laptop for my grown up daughter, Dell Inspiron 1525
>> seems to manage to do all she needs for Googlemail, web browsing and a
>> little word processing. It's also got a 160gig harddrive so I can get
>> it to dual boot whatever form of Microsoft it comes with, although I
>> went straight from windows to Slackware 7 and never went back so I
>> might need help in getting something to dual boot.
>>
>> All comments, alternative recommendations, and suggestions welcomed.
>
> I'd suggest looking out for something that comes with XP - not vista!

Why? HP Pavilions come with Vista and Linux runs on them no problem.

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From: Martin Gregorie on 14 Jun 2008 19:16
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:36:54 +0100, Will Kemp wrote:

> I use a Thinkpad R61 (which i can thoroughly recommend, by the way) -
> and it works fine, but when i bought it (in November last year) the
> architecture was still quite new and it was a bit tricky getting
> everything to work on it.
>
Thanks for the recommendation - I'd been thinking if going for an
R.61. Unfortunately, due to the impact of work on free time it looks like
I'll have a new laptop before diving into the mini-ITX adventure. I hear
that R.61s now come with pre-installed Vista, but that's no problem - it
can be reformatted as easily as any blank disk.


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From: Nemo on 15 Jun 2008 03:33
Nemo wrote:

> All comments, alternative recommendations, and suggestions welcomed.

Thank you all so much for the information, we are still looking into the
various possibilities, an Eee would have been an answer for her, but
the small screen was a little of-putting.
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Nemo
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"
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