Re: Meanwhile, in the real world...

Conrad Knauer wrote:
>
> I'm looking for an older (e.g. PII, though Scott had mentioned that
> one of the tiny distros (DSL?) will work on an original Pentium, as I
> recall) laptop for a friend that's less than $150 (preferably less
> than $100) that runs ok enough for me to install a desktop distro on
> it for word processing, perhaps light internet use, that sort of
> thing...
>
FWIW, some years ago I took this path to get a laptop as a gift for my
eldest daughter. Within a year it suffered a fatal hardware failure (the
display died). My impression is that laptop h/w is generally dainty and
short-lived, so much so that buying used does not work out well --
especially given the general failure of both individual and enterprise
resellers to accept a realistic rate of depreciation for computer h/w in
general.
Received on Thu Nov 2 20:49:31 2006