[wplug] Laptops

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Dane Miller wrote:

> Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
>> For the gentleman (sorry, I'm very bad at remembering names) who was
>> asking me about laptop computers at today's meeting, I purchased mine
>> here: <http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=NBB>.  Most of these are
>> refurbished but I have had good success buying from these folks.
>
>
> Retrobox has several IBM T23 laptops from $300-$450.  I found some
> webpages written about Linux on the T23 for CMU students... anyone on
> this list using a T23 with linux?  How does it work?
>

Aces.  There was a period (around 2.6.8) where a lot of APM stuff wasn't 
working properly.  I am still in that period, but I hear the new kernels 
fix the bugs.  ACPI doesn't work at all, so stick with APM.  Otherwise 
fine.

-Brandon