> I just saw an advertisement from Lidl (a cheap supermarkt chain in
> Europe, at least in Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal) advertising a

in my practice - avoid supermarkts when buying computers.....

> "Targa Visonary 1800+" laptop for only EUR 1700. It looks like it has
> just about everything you could want, except apparently pcmcia/cardbus
> slots:
>
> AMD Athlon XP1800+

what's chip-set?

> 512M RAM
> 40G disk
> S3 Savage4 Graphic core up to 32M RAM shared memory

shared with main?!
definitely not acceptable.