Laptop recommendation
dsr at tao.merseine.nu
dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Thu Jan 4 16:01:48 EST 2007
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:35:01PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> I don't particularly care about 3D acceleration; I don't play games
> any more sophisticated than Minesweeper and I turn off all of the
> animation, fading, etc. that passes for "innovation" these days.
> However, the screen resolution is very important -- 1600 is the
> minimum horizontal resolution I need to have 3 emacs windows side by
> side in 6x10 font, and I want the highest resolution I can get to more
> effectively edit photographs and such.
How does this look?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834147194
HP Compaq nx7400
You'll want to add RAM, but otherwise it might suit you. The
Intel graphics chip eats system RAM but has completely open
source X drivers.
-dsr-
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