Re: Laptop Considerations

[calvin maready <cc.cal () verizon net>]

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I have a dell xps laptop and it runs great, i have the uxga screen too, not 
sure which screen your goin for. the only thing i dont care about for dell is 
they only offered ATI cards and no nvidia's, but that might be different for 
the model your looking for. as for the wireless, i have a slot for it but i 
didn't buy their card cuz i didnt know if it'd be supported or not, so i've 
bought a dlink card seperate and have had no troubles. overall, compatibility 
with drivers or hardware including acpi. btw im running slackware. if ya have 
any other questions email me back personally if you want. goodluck.

On Saturday 11 December 2004 07:47 pm, David Bouchard wrote:
> I am about to be purchasing a laptop and I was wanting the advice of the
> list.  I know this can be a very personal topic for some people, but I have
> to throw it out there anyway.
>
> Here's my situation...I'm about to be attending a degree program in
> Information Assurance and Forensics.  I also have my own business doing a
> variety of things computer related.  At some point I would like to delve
> more heavily into vulnerability assesment, penetration testing, and
> possibly forensics.  I'm looking for a laptop that will be flexible enough
> to meet all these needs.
>
> This is what my immediate plans for the laptop are:  for my business, I
> need to have some of the basic MS Office suite on it, as well as MS
> Publisher.  I plan on making it into a dual-boot machine with some flavor
> of linux.  I don't care to use a live linux CD because I want to be able to
> store logs, settings, and other data onto the drive, and I hope to
> eventually use linux for everything except the MS stuff that I have to use
> on occasion for my business.
>
> Because of the variety of things I plan on doing, I want to get one that
> has a serial and a parallel port in addition to the USB that they pretty
> much all come with now.  It would be nice to have at least one PCMCIA slot
> as well.  I plan to do some wireless network assessment, so it needs to be
> wireless capable, but for my purposes being able to attach an external
> antennae for extra range isn't that important.
>
> What I'm looking at right now is the Dell Latitude D600.  I've supported
> and purchased a lot of Dell desktop computers and have been very happy with
> them and I have run Knoppix-STD on a Dell laptop and everything ran well. 
> The D600 has the ports I'd like.
>
> Any thoughts or recommendations?  Any capibilities that you think I've
> missed?
>
> Thanks,
> David
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