[ Thanks to Bryan for this link.
]
“A few weeks ago, I seriously thought about buying either
Apple’s latest MacBook or a Windows laptop where I could dual boot
between the laptops native operating systems and Linux. In the end,
I chose to install Linux on a three year old laptop. This old
laptop isn’t just any laptop but one of the first sub-$1000 laptops
that hit the United States market. The laptop is the Averatec 3220
and over time I’ve found it just too sluggish for running Windows
XP.“Ubuntu Linux on my Averatec 3220 Laptop This old Averatec 3220
had a lot of negatives going its way for installing Linux. The
laptop is from a company that almost no one knows so support was
limited. Even Google had a tough time helping me find ‘best
practices’ for installing Linux on this particular laptop
model…”