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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.4/1146 - Release Date: > > 11/22/2007 6:55 PM > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
