Ubuntu Laptop Suggestion

[Tony Baldwin]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> This is a bit off topic, but a sixth grader from my kid's school asked
> for recommendations for a laptop.  He says he's saved up about $400[2]
> (we are in the US) and wants to learn Linux and programming.
> 
> My Linux laptops have always been Thinkpads, but that's out of his
> price range.
> 
> True, it's easy to find Linux laptops on-line, but at his price range
> I'm concerned with hardware compatibility.  I can research, but I
> thought it worth a try asking here just in case anyone has been
> through this lately or seen any great deals in that price range.
> 
> Also, my Thinkpads have always had plenty of power -- so I don't have
> experience with low-end laptops.  For example, most the low price
> units are Celeron 2.16GHz machines[1] so I wonder if things like
> compiz will even run.
> 
> Sorry, I'm not that up on hardware.
> 
> 

I bought a used a21m thinkpad (750mz PIII with 512mb ram) from ebay and 
run jaunty on it with no problem.  I think I spent all of $250 after 
buying the machine, adding a 20gb hdd to replace the 4gb that was in 
there, and buying a PCMCIA wifi card for it.
I also just acquired an everex cloudbook with hardy from ebay for all of 
$100, and it's a pretty nifty little machine (1.2ghz, 512mb ram, I think).

/tony
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