Any experience with Lenovo N100 or ACER AS5103?

[Ian Malone]

Peter Skensved wrote:
>       Ian,
>   I've been using a Lenovo 3000 N100  since last November. I had FC6 on it for
> a while and recently switched to CentOS5.0 . We use CentOS on a large number
> of work stations and servers around here which is why I prefer it over FC6.
> 

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Thanks for the suggestions.  This in particular;

> 
>  I believe the models they sell now are different so the above may not be
> useful any more. What I did before I bought it was to take a few live 
> CDs to the store and got their permission to boot them on their demos.
> 

Seems to be pretty sound advice.

>   There is no live CentOS5.0 CD yet but there is a 4.4 out there and 
> you could also try Knoppix . Not sure if there is a Fedora Core one.
> 

Fedora 7 i386 Live.  (Which I must say looks very nice on
my desktop machine.)

I'm having second thoughts about a 15.4" machine though,
12.1 is looking very tempting...

-- 
imalone