[olug] Linux Laptop v/s. Apple Powermac

[Jacobs, Robert A.]

Brian,

	Are you running Debian on the Inspiron 8200?  That was one of
the machines I was looking at?  

	Were you able to get around the Microsoft tax?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Wiese [mailto:bwiese at cotse.com]
>Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:40 PM
>To: olug at olug.org
>Subject: Re: [olug] Linux Laptop v/s. Apple Powermac
>
>
>On 09 Mar 2003 15:09:19 -0600
>"Robert A. Jacobs" <r.a.jacobs at cox.net> wrote:
>
>|On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:25, Daniel Pfile wrote:
>|
>|
>|> Get the airport extreme and use it with whatever 802.11b/g 
>base station
>|> you want. The range is kinda weak (antenna is in the screen, and the
>|> back is covered in titanium), mine seems to go about 100 
>feet through 3
>|> plaster walls ok though.
>|> 
>|
>|Any PC laptop users want to comment on their wireless experience?
>|
>|rob
>
>yeah, my builtin wifi card on my dell insprion 8200 seems a bit weak
>compared to other pcmcia cards... i honestly haven't tested 
>the range and
>differences, but it personally seems noticable.. it works though. =)
>
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