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Ray Smith wrote: > Well I guess not. > I ended up getting a laptop from PCworld (shock horror) after looking > all over which has radeon x1200. After playing with 3dMark01,03,05 it > seems to be comparable with my 4 year old desktop which has 128mb ati > radeon agp. Well past it now for any modern games but as I only want to > be able to play the odd game under linux and rouge squadron(which works > well apart from a small display issue) and compiz then I should be ok. > > Thanks for all the suggestions. > > I got a Toshiba L350D in the end. 2 gb ram,120gb HD and 17inch screen. > Asking price 407 quid,none in stock anywhere so asked as they had 2 on > the display shelf if I could buy one of those. They agree and nocked 30 > quid off and got a laptop case included. > Vista premium preloaded (which I loathe!) > They wiped all their pc world rubbish off and set up a recovery > partition but split in disk equally in two. Am trying to sort out > editing this to be more realistic as well as set up a partition for > linux but gparted live doesn't recognize and partitions on the drive.Am > downloading a more recent version to see if this resolves problem. > > Main big problem at the moment is that no ubuntu live cd's will work. > Get dropped to a busybox shell. Knoppix loaded ok. Mandriva spring 2008 > failed with some similar error. > > apparently intrepid ibex likes this laptop so I might have to wait a > couple of weeks until it's out of Beta. > > > Ray > Did you get any recovery discs? Just thinking if you didn't, make a set before you do anything else. That way if it screws up you can restore Windows before taking it back. Sounds good for the money. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html