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 1OsEoy-0002NC-K6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:59:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F1F8E062C; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 12:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094D0E062C for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 12:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so2739979fxm.40 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:58:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=55eGnOtWt2T8ANrQIARhiVVPLMR6YaHL/GIx4ow1VHw=; b=fmZpFMFPTUW2D7qIbiYgyAxBHBwem/XLhpjtZ9B5m8g8hm5DWPxCQs4o7/9Oio3iV/ 0isYC2eHpvkH29Q0Lea7DTw1uXUSPRg2UtgD4E2s1Hon3snVz8Nqf+Sx30fvRryZboeu e3fGJZR6bNEdvm42m88bAbm5qTmwiW6OlUSOA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=fTfTSthSYZ/FNfQXgMi3ljRIXk58VabCj3dFw2IqCoi+oBg6T7xJdXdtrMJ5eiett6 li0adRctgFeuoItwNIyOA9pZ6TADrb9VIgNgCEapF6P6Y/Z1jNDqvhsO7y3yP94M8zes rmvMeVb/bIm2nxUHO1lotedcXYofBnoY6V0pY= Received: by 10.239.144.140 with SMTP id o12mr184041hba.119.1283691539250; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:58:59 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.239.189.136 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:58:39 -0700 (PDT) From: John Blinka Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:58:39 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 07c4a4ec-b743-4dfa-9822-d7b41dd1cd4f X-Archives-Hash: f670f5d36e486ce91ef5649708c6d422 Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the 1600x900 display on the more modern Inspiron 1545 I own. Most of what I do now is through a web browser, and I can see much more of a web page with 1200 lines of display than I can with 900. And I dislike the massive width of the 1545 which makes it much less portable than the old 8200. I'd love to replace my 8200 with a machine of similar dimensions, but thinner and lighter. However, I cannot find any machine on Dell's website with a 4x3 aspect ratio - they all seem to be approximately 16x9 now. So, is 16x9 all that's available now in laptops? If I'm stuck with a 16x9 aspect ratio, then I'd like to get something significantly narrower and more portable than my 1545 (14.75", 37.5 cm wide) and with as many horizontal lines in the display as possible. Any suggestions? (And, yes, I'm open to a non-Dell solution.) Thanks for your suggestions, John Blinka