Dell always has nice stuff at a low price Inspiron E1505 Intel® Core™ Duo T2250 (1.73GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB) FREE Upgrade to Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with 1GB of memory 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm 80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive $799+tax Shipping is usually free. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/tv?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&keycode=6Vc94&DGVCode=TV Lee Reynolds wrote: I have a faculty member here who is looking for a laptop to run Linux. Unfortunately I'm not the best person to make a recommendation on what to buy since I don't run Linux on any laptops. I have set it up before for our customers and even got things like sound, full X support, and wireless working (sometimes). What I lack is the ability to say "buy this" and be confident that my recommendation will have minimal problems. Here is her description of what she wants: "I am looking for a minimal laptop. The purpose of the purchase is to have a machine that I can take into class and demonstrate LINUX commands, utilities, etc as well as development of C and C++ programs. Quite honestly, I would like to spend as little as possible." It should be able to connect to our wireless network and be fairly capable, but other than that there are not any special considerations. If anyone has any recommendations I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Lee --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Keith Smith A link from my website to yours Submit Your Metro Phoenix Website --------------------------------- Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.