Kclug Digest, Vol 36, Issue 26

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> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:29:19 -0500
> From: "Joe Brouhard" <jbrouhard at gmail.com>
> Subject: Laptop for sale
> To: ubuntu-us-mo at lists.ubuntu.com, kclug at kclug.org,
>         ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I now have my Dell Inspirion 5150 available for sale.  Going price is
> $350 or best offer.  Specs are:
>
> 15.4" LCD 1024x768 maximum resolution
> Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
> 512MB DDR RAM
> 40GB Hard Drive
> DVD-ROM
> Internal Wireless (broadcom 43xx chipset)
> nVidia GeForce Go 5500 Video Card
>
> Runs Kubuntu very very beautifully.  If anyone wants it, i'm willing
> to install kubutu and make sure wireless and DVD works
>
> Price is $350 or best offer.  Comes complete with a Kubuntu CD, and power cord.
>
> --
> Joe Brouhard
> jbrouhard at gmail.com

Any takers yet? I'm a little interested.  Any chance I could get
hdparm -tT numbers for the hdd?  HDD speed always seems to be the
divider between "teh suck" and "teh nosuck" for laptops.

Thanks,
Sean

PS: How's the penguin box treating you?