From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FOmKT-0006FC-G0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:52:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2U1ogok008966; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:50:42 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2U1fo1G020336 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:41:51 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so293828nzc for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:41:50 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ss7kvJv3tw4YD3c6SIZhxRmAnoXXS33+3yC57x7TVPX/2RFFZyv+QxNTsoPr6tvq1YsjFmx5mpKEi0V5ZzSUfDh83NMu85Dbpp/EvPAJom/2T3Vu/FkRBSasgSLNo1ebaFGpUqFjSM7dZmS52UX1V0GkFOfEigIjCB+eGMwc3M0= Received: by 10.36.222.45 with SMTP id u45mr1840086nzg; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:41:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.154.3 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:41:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:41:49 -0800 From: "Lord Sauron" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone? In-Reply-To: <1143682552.19064.26.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1143616641.29453.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603282355t7ab5a526tfd619e0c9c45a03@mail.gmail.com> <1143646905.21205.31.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603290845h3bedb131m209cc6323aee5848@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640603291228s93d3dc4o64edfe2adef0aa54@mail.gmail.com> <1143682552.19064.26.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2U1fo1G020336 X-Archives-Salt: 07dadf2a-a8be-467c-80db-7d26c99bcf00 X-Archives-Hash: 0f70f1456b905d8d87d1c2fb4e23d603 On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:42 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: > > On 3/29/06, Richard Fish wrote: > > > Yeah, however, I see all these people buy a cheap laptop from Dell and > > expect it to run stuff like Doom 3. > > Soon, they'll have to but it from Alienware which dell just bought > recently. They're pulling the plug on the discrete graphics even on the > inspiron. /me hates those built-in graphics. Makes things slow. > Seriously does make a difference. However, at the same time, you really shouldn't expect games out of any but the most expensive laptops. Maybe 5-10 years from now that'll be a different story, but for now that's about right. > > > the available desktop without zooming in so far that he couldn't see > > > the overall diagram. On my 17" screen at 1920x1200 though, neither of > > > us had any problems with the display. > > If you're not concerned with battery nor weight. I suggest you go for > the Dell XPS Mobile concept (when it becomes available) > > Now, that is one _*#$*#_ of a laptop. > > Here are some shots. (hope I don't get flamed for this. I've resized the > pics to the smallest. That's not so much a laptop as a new breed of ultraportable desktop, IMHO. -- ========== GCv3.12 ========== GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y ========= END GCv3.12 ======== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list