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 1OtRk8-0000N9-VA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:59:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14670E077F; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:59:26 +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 C6FF1E077F for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:59:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so491133eyf.40 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:59:25 -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:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=UZjL+r7wmcIZbmyuxPeIF8n+ukRwSnZSK0f09vD6zO8=; b=I60weAVjhlRwX+Yyew5SBfTPa+NF1h6Jyljx44HgFv6voV4b4gvD37MZbZA0M9Kh8T P3869kmworwRWRRB3zWzMPf+T2TS94n7fYfjeCvuqxbtmAf/oxkZb8uKd/JWe88QYpvw aINYrRo+koTl7ogf2KwzLGuvxuhO6Q1SqHOPE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=EN2DXYzjG0f5i6eIhLxK/qyUYUv2IL/a0a+HvLzxjmM8nbA8I+lPzA4gegSxH4mz70 JOuNYN6X/KcSarWpDhmyv8id+sAn4eGVM5j/9x5jdh/u0LLY8RWHbrBDf3QpHps2LP4e KaEPEOwPM7nqxdi/Fe/9JG5eamlsH6ZV5ALiQ= Received: by 10.14.119.16 with SMTP id m16mr172496eeh.14.1283979564159; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-155.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v59sm724328eeh.4.2010.09.08.13.59.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:59:17 -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: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:59:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r2; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <201009082206.01244.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: <201009082259.13853.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6aa98612-ec21-44da-9418-75a4c2a094c8 X-Archives-Hash: f20e6e3901917d22a3a0eb79d1ad247b Apparently, though unproven, at 22:14 on Wednesday 08 September 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: > On 2010-09-08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I need to shut up now. My hatred of pixelated display devices is > > showing. I accept an LCD for my notebook as CRTs just don't fit, but > > nothing beats a real CRT imho for image quality. > > I presume you mean a nice monochrome display not one of those fuzzy > color things with the individual phosphor dots/bars on the screen. It > was a sad day I was finally forced to give up my big, razor-sharp Sun > grayscale monitor for one of those small, fuzzy-looking, color things. No, I mean insanely high quality colour CRTs with out of this world dpi. The kind where you cannot discern individual triads at normal viewing distance. Not quite medical quality (I'm not that crazy) but close. Like I said in my response to Paul, a poor colour CRT has got to be the worst thing out there. Most of those colour things are like that. But the opposite does exist. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com