Lost my N800 Thursday... ^%@#& Left it somewhere on campus... still have hope some honest student will turn it in to the dept (seems more likely than an OC Transpo rider).

But looking around to replace it, it seems very hard to buy an N800 in Canada, expansys.ca has none, Nokia.ca store is 404, any suggestions?

Dunno. First, I won't be running Ubuntu; not a big fan. Probably Slackware or maybe Debian.

Second, one of my main reasons for buying a new laptop is to deliver a presentation at an upcoming AIAA conference; about a week from now. It came with Vista (ugh!) with all hardware supported and working, and I need MS Office for the presentation to go precisely as in practice runs; I could make OOo work, but differences in the transitions, etc. make that require extra work tweaking things, so I'm not doing that this time. (You can bet our next paper I present will run in OOo, or something else.)

So I'm not installing XP (more palatable OS, still giving the compatibility I need), even though drivers are said to be available, let alone anything else, until after the conference. Then, I plan to set up for a triple boot: Vista (mainly as a reference to compare hardware functionality), XP/Cygwin (usable OS with necessary compatibility for Mathcad), and (probably; unless something else catches my eye...) Slackware, Slamd64, or Debian, as a generally useful environment.

I might be able to give feedback on that in a month or so, then, but nothing Ubuntu-specific. I did find one thread with a brief Google; some complete newb was working through trying to get stuff working, and it's not entirely clear what was and wasn't working.

There's one available on ebay in Mississauga. That's all I got. hth

I'm feeling your pain Dre! Brutal man. If you are serious about replacing it then you might want to try http://www.pccyber.com/?v=product&i=TAB-NOKIA-N800 as they have the N800 listed. They may be able to order you one and they are local here in Ottawa; 3 locations - Wellington, Bank and Bells Corners.

I hope someone is more honest then the *** clown that took mine. Best of luck.

Crouching Hamster

Keep an eye on our Buy and sell forum, it has one or two forsale coming up every week. I just pick one up last week.


bun

I buy mine in tigerdirect.ca in mississauga
but now they only have n810

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...156&srkey=n810

Lucky bastard that I am, I got my N800 returned to me (seems I left it in a stall in the men's room, one I've noticed has good wifi service). I must have accidentally banked some karma points recently...

That's brilliant Dre! I can't believe that someone actually was honest enough to return it. Unbelievable really given that most youth these days seem to grow up without a parental endowed moral compass.

Nice to see a happy end to your N800 saga.

Crouching Hamster

There is an upside to being a fool

I once dropped the same five-dollar bill twice in the same day at different Manhattan subway stations, without realizing it.

Both times, I suddenly became aware that someone was chasing me, and they were returning the bill!

I have had this sort of thing happen many times in my life; I figure I must project an aura of cluelessness that protects me...