Laptop recommendations?

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I have had success with Dell latitudes -- watch out though, the one I
have does have a serial port, but make sure yours does as well.  I
don't have orca running, but there is no NVidia card, so you may have
luck there.  My desktop does have an Nvidia card and runs Orca, but I
am using Gentoo, so your mileage may vary.

on Thursday 11/22/2007 Hurst, Cody(churst35 at verizon.net) wrote
 > Anything without an Nvidia video card should do what you are looking for. 
 > Not an hp because that is what I have and ubuntu never booted and installed 
 > I just got a wave across the screen. Suse installed fine on it however but 
 > orca never worked. Anything else should work just fine. Just as I said watch 
 > out for the Nvidia cards.
 > ----- Original Message ----- 
 > From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
 > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
 > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 7:51 PM
 > Subject: OT: Laptop recommendations?
 > 
 > 
 > > Hello all,
 > >
 > > I'm looking to buy a laptop that is hopefully linux compliant,
 > > has a serial port,an RJ45 ethernet port so I can plug it into my router, 
 > > and hopefully, it's own internal speakers and audio
 > > system.  Can anyone recommend a decent to high-quality model and
 > > possibly a URL?  No offense to the Slackware users out there, but I'm
 > > heading back to Debian, so I don't have to spend all my time in lynx,
 > > trying to find things on the web.  I think I'm ready to try Orca.
 > > I'm hoping there's a laptop out there with at least a couple
 > > gigs of memory and a 100G hard drive and a CD or DVD burner already
 > > installed.  I really need a second system to be able to access my main
 > > system via telnet.  A Core-2 system would be even better, if possible.
 > > $1300 is my purchase limit, though.  Any recommendations are greatly
 > > appreciated.  TIA,
 > >
 > > Michael
 > >
 > >
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