From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OsxTe-0001v6-BO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:40:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E68AE0AA6; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A829E0AA6 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so2519474eyf.40 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:40:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=zxVfLfw5K97RmQHIJyeO8+4w8Kbsuz4idps4budJwt0=; b=mBojb2Zpn4yu6QiVic0uGcnnFZdb9j0oTkXB6Hb8xsf8hGm0Z5e4vfmYIj6dmbUQ4e ZD9piA6WOI+TA+tKJs9rxj3iodRh8hXoTiisPzRXiBtbu8SXJ7s6KZmC/teK3dI1Ekd+ JPpT78GzDLVT/rTCIg9kB5chBMYyP6HNgfNMQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=i7cSUp091lbafML7jf8W1gekuC+z60tU35WM5DGwJ/xyN5jB+KvW1H2CTMgdC+4tUN qVBQmuY3n0KPdtXGb6+bQ4DeMF/QnbnR72FBTyNt0iu01GNC2EIl5U6zkuv9YmnsOqhc 9wk2yD8sKs5KzB4VgoG3FNDyxYh5boymv3trg= Received: by 10.213.19.203 with SMTP id c11mr102348ebb.31.1283862729456; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a48sm9825691eei.12.2010.09.07.05.32.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:32:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:29:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r2; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: John Blinka References: <201009052125.17134.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009071429.10032.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b44abaca-df29-43a7-a8e5-1911f7fe5bf8 X-Archives-Hash: 151ba8af6b58b71cf7b81cd8b43d481f 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