[clug] Can anyone suggest some place/shop to buy a laptop?

[Andrew Loughhead]

Randall Crook wrote:
> I bought a HP Compaq 6715b from harris technology for 1500.
> Has a dual core 2.2Ghz Turion 64 in it.. Runs really well with Kubuntu
> amd64 (Gutsy) I did install the binary ATI driver for it to get the
> performance out of the graphics but the non-free version from the repos
> worked ok.
>   
Back when Turions first came out I looked into getting a laptop with 
one, an MSI.  I was finally put off by a review describing it as noisy.  
Care to volunteer an opinion on noisiness of your HP?