Best cheap laptop for linux?

[NoOp]

On 08/14/2009 06:28 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
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> My Wife has a Dell mini 9  using Ubuntu 8.04 and is happy as a clam.  
> She browses the web, does e-mail and plays a few  simple games on 
> line.    I have a friend that is using one with a GPS plugged in that 
> uses marine charts  to navigate his sailboat.  These dell netbooks have 
> the hardware to be a GPS built in but no software so he has been trying 
> to write software to run it.  I think the GPS is there for roaming 
> wireless and will likely come with software at a later date?  I don't 
> know if other makes do or not.  They are built modular so you can open 
> them up and add in hardware  and Dell encourages this with out the loss 
> of warranty. Makes them easy to up grade!

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