cheap old laptop

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Friday 06 January 2006 11:22 am, Laura Conrad wrote:
> My ancient windows laptop seems to have finally given up the ghost.
> This leaves me with only one working computer, with only LINUX
> installed.
>
> I hate the idea of having to actually use Windows, but I really do
> need something that will test my website on IE, and when I had to set
> up the dialup connection when my DSL went down last spring, being able
> to use google on the Windows laptop was what made it possible to find
> the magic words for LINUX.  And of course, if something happened to
> this computer, I'd need to be able to read email.  I might be able to
> figure out how to do that on the Zaurus with no connection to a real
> computer, but I wouldn't want to bet too much money on that.
>
> So where would you go to get a cheap or free laptop computer with some
> version of Windows installed?
How about a Linux laptop running Crossover Office.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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