Re: Obtaining a laptop

["R.A.Fletcher" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

> Since I'm only over here for a semester, I didn't really think it
> worthwhile to purchase a desktop machine which I'd then have to get
> rid of fairly quickly before I departed the country on my way to
> elsewhere.  I am badly pining for a Linux box, however, and have
> considered a Laptop/Notebook/Whatever which I can use here, and then
> transport to the US (which is my next stop).  So, I'm after a laptop.

If you don't have any luck with the prior suggestions, there's 
MicroMart, again available in Newsagents. UKP1 is the price, or it 
was. I found that many people who sell their machines do so 
because they dont use it enough to make it worthwhile. These 
users are not aware of the falling prices in computer hardware. In 
local ad papers I find a good deal of computers for sale which are 
only marginally less then the cost of a new machine with the same 
specs. (Assuming it's available) MicroMart seems to have a lot of 
people selling who actually know the value of their machines. Or at 
least did about 12 months ago when I last looked at one.

I hope you find what you want.
Also, what would you use the laptop for without X Windows? Non-
XWindows development? Putting documents together to then 
exporting to another machine? It wouldn't be as a web server, and 
you obviously have free internet access, so quite probably not for 
checking your mail. Just curiosity you understand.
_oOO-Richard Fletcher-OOo_
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