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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: John Blinka <john.blinka@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:29:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009071429.10032.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinzcd4Y7SY2FqVtdfrE1gdvvW-u0AysKXuHvEhf@mail.gmail.com>

Apparently, though unproven, at 14:24 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, John 
Blinka did opine thusly:

> > I paid the extra to get
> > 16:9 @ 1920x1200. Best thing I ever did laptop-wise - I can get two
> > webpages side by side on the screen looking very natural.
> 
> Mind telling me what you got?  The 1200 part sounds attractive to me.
> 
> John Blinka


Dell XPS M1530 with nvidia GeForce 8600M GT

The machine is now 2 years ago so I reckon that nvidia has been superceded. 
But all the high end Dells have hi-res screens as an option. You won't find 
them on the budget and student ranges - those are cheap crap with hardware 
specs to match.

I figure that just like a top-grade mechanic should be looking at SnapOns or 
similar in his toolbox, this here sysadmin also needs high quality tools. My 
chief tool is my notebook.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-05 12:58 [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo John Blinka
2010-09-05 14:02 ` Florian Philipp
2010-09-05 15:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-09-05 19:25   ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-05 22:04     ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-09-06 11:08       ` Stroller
2010-09-05 23:42     ` Grant Edwards
2010-09-06  0:21       ` Al
2010-09-06  6:16       ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-06 16:24         ` Grant Edwards
2010-09-06 22:02           ` Mick
2010-09-06 22:48           ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-09-07  2:04             ` Grant Edwards
2010-09-07 14:38               ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-09-07 16:15                 ` Robert Bridge
2010-09-07 16:34                   ` Grant Edwards
2010-09-07 12:24     ` John Blinka
2010-09-07 12:29       ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-09-07 13:11         ` Eray Aslan
2010-09-07 21:23           ` Jake Moe
2010-09-07 21:34           ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-05 15:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Al
2010-09-07 21:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-07 23:09 ` Paul Hartman
2010-09-08  0:01   ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-08 15:24   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-09-08 15:40     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-08 16:53       ` Per-Erik Westerberg
2010-09-08 20:06         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-08 20:14           ` Grant Edwards
2010-09-08 20:59             ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-08 20:27           ` Paul Hartman
2010-09-08 20:54             ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-08 20:22       ` Paul Hartman
2010-09-08 16:12     ` Paul Hartman

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