Hi all,

I'm looking for an laptop with these features:

* Atleast 128 mb ram
* About 20 gb harddisk
* Able to run 1024*768 in a pleasent way
* 10/100mbit integrated NIC
* NO Winmodem/faxmodem
* No OS. If that's not an option, a pure Windows 2000 copy is preferrable
* In general good hardware support for linux
*

Is something like this available?

regards,
Cyth

Just about all laptops have winmodems, however you can use a lot of different pcmcia modems.

Aside from luck with auction sites and a few small dealers, for those specs its probably best to go directly to the source. No OS is pretty much impossible.

I've had personal luck with the IBM thinkpads from 486s-PIIIs, and recently had a chuckle putting Mandrake 8.1 on an Inspiron. It took about half an hour. It had an internal modem, but we didn't bother with trying to configure it. DSL is a lot of fun. The NIC worked right off the bat.

Internal NICs are hard to come by, but if cash isn't that big a factor, the Inspiron may be the way to go. Finding a laptop with a fully compatible modem may be really hard, but DavePhillips had it right, supported PCMCIA cards are cheap, especially compared to the outlay for the laptop, and Linux handles card swapping really well.

Those are my two brand preferences. I've also heard good things about Toshibas.

Compaqs, largely, suck. I've heard maintenance horror stories about their laptops and my roommate has a desktop that I had to track down a special screwdriver for.

Sorry for the too much info,

Cheers,

Finegan

The only thing not working on my Dell Latitude is the internal modem.
I saw someone was working on a driver for it.

There is something strange with the DVD also but it is almost certainly the codecs that are not right, It plays but at the wrong speed and with no sound.


I have not spent much time trying to get it right yet.



The desktop is real smooth though, It is a 750MHz, with 256MB ram.

It has a Rage 128 Mobility Video card.

The video is great at 1024x768.

I don't bother with any other screen size.

800x600 seems fuzzy to me in both linux and windows.