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 1Ot5dl-0002KW-1T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:23:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4650E0BFF; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81607E0BFF for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk36 with SMTP id 36so2766420pzk.40 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:23:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bRFrwJ9XUSqFYf8t/TJI5JzcptumKPez5MJ6qxSVafM=; b=CQa8085CbQmixxTnXu7uGVoZ9kUrjOMQ1tt6N6o6G81YjtTIFKXm9i2z57enS2LDUQ q2ucrPX1tFIiZQDd9LnR/QQ9bV87mZbnGJXW8db6ak+bZU8KZMxjAQ39fruH1FpG+t3D mp9MVtz9szLbzKoY7TyM/8unUJbicOMU/RMf4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CP3JTYIlUjojJCbRCMD4Gy5USC7ZpIUAXrKLo/sI27UdCAFh3WTYkvRsoVDGhRyXqe d3BESr3omEIpmJfAl3WEbT0wHgU7pgelr+kxBvDJ9FPuMhhwOjnmg1EXBQm4DCgzPk2H DRklT6iwNBitMiFg08sERBgjGJKOaNfGm89JA= Received: by 10.114.112.15 with SMTP id k15mr314278wac.183.1283894587943; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.55] ([59.154.26.81]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o17sm14211800wal.9.2010.09.07.14.23.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C86AD35.7040407@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:23:01 +1000 From: Jake Moe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100726 Thunderbird/3.1.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo References: <201009052125.17134.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201009071429.10032.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4C863A08.9090100@caf.com.tr> In-Reply-To: <4C863A08.9090100@caf.com.tr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d4e25312-7754-476f-a5ad-4b50e8dff359 X-Archives-Hash: 49766e3e42f8d02d948841c9e003d6fd On 07/09/10 23:11, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 07.09.2010 15:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> 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. > It's the weight not the price that is the deciding factor us. I guess > depends on how much traveling you do. There is no one final ultimate > answer. It depends. Labeling low res solutions as "cheap crap" was > uncalled for. He didn't say "low res" = "cheap crap". He said student and budget ranges were cheap crap. Our execs like smaller laptops (not netbooks) that are easier to use on airplanes that, because of the smaller screen size, have lower resolutions. That's not to say they're "cheap crap"; just because they're small doesn't mean they're no good. Jake Moe