This week the company where I work gave me a new laptop to use, a Compaq Evo n610c. I’m using it to type this. My personal laptop is a 500MHz Celeron. This one is a 2GHz P4 (with 512M of memory), and it’s very nice. As I type this, it’s running Mozilla, Evolution, Gaim, and Rhythmbox in Linux, while the same time installing ActiveState Perl in Windows 2000, running under VMWare (screenshot).
And it’s humming along. Amazing.
I’d like to write a page of tips for installing Linux on the Evo 610c (there are a few issues I’ve run into so far), but it’s not at the top of my to-do list.