Does anyone have any experience with this vendor?

[dan at Paragon.COM (Dan Demus)]

   Hi,

   Does anyone on this list have any experience with SWT (SW Technologies)
   ftp://ftp.swt.com

   They sell pre-configured linux pc's
   and I'm considering buying a high-end laptop from them.

   As an aside, the top of my list is currently a NEC Versa vs a Toshiba.

   Does anyone have any experiences to report?

Raman,

I have a Toshiba laptop.  It`s a bit of a klunker as notebooks go.
It`s a 386-16 w/ gas plasma display.  It`s kind of slow, but the real
boon to it is that I can plug a 16bit and/or an 8bit card in it.  I
have Linux running on it with X windows configured.  It dosen`t have a
battery and weighs about 25 pounds, but it`s pretty portable.

I`ve seen them used for 500$.  A laptop everyone can afford.

One thing I would look out for is that the old Toshibas have the disk
geometry hard coded in the BIOS.  They probably don`t do this now, but
for old laptops [like mine] a disk upgrade has to include a BIOS
upgrade.  Just look in the setup and verify you can set the number of
cylinders, sectors, and heads to any value.

		Dan.