[OT] RE: Anythnig to watch out for on a laptop?

[duncan brown]

also, when you're considering laptops, don't do what i did.

i've had a dell inspiron 4000 sine sept 2000 (p3 700), and my new job requires that i have a laptop, and they'd purchase one for me if i set it up.  i went for the alienware area-51m, big mistake.  number one, wide screen displays are a pain in the ass to get working, the size and weight of the laptop is a real hinderance.  it's a p4 2.8GHz, but i find myself using the dell about 9/10ths of the time, and the alien for gaming (as rare as it is).  the dell is just a really nice size, light, doesn't get too hot and the 1024x768 resolution is perfect for my aging (28 years) eyes.  the alien is at 1680x1050 (or something similarly insane), which bothers my eyes.

if you don't plan on carrying the thing around alot, then weight doesn't matter... but when you have to lug it through airports or your walk from the car to your desk is a decent length, smaller is better for sure.

not only that, but the thing burns through the batteries like crazy... even at idle.

i read somewhere recently that intel is going to start releasing the centrino drivers for linux, not open source, but closed like nvidia and ati.

-d

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:24:31 -0600
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] RE: Anythnig to watch out for on a laptop?

> At 01:48 4/6/2004, you wrote:
> >Have you seen their Z1 Laptop Line. Now, That is Really Cool.
> >Looks even slicker than the T41. (IMHO)
> 
> Yes, *very* cool. But check out the new X40, and the advantage is not so 
> great. My problem is that I am now convinced (from significant prior 
> personal experience) that the Z1 would be expensive, slow, dogged by driver 
> incompatibilities, prone to overheating, loud, and with short battery life.
> 
> Give me the IBM for real work, please... for the moment, Sony computers and 
> PDA's are just good for showing off their looks and their cool factor (and 
> the X40 has a cool factor of its own, too). My full respect to the Sony 
> *designers* but their *engineers* still have a ways to go. :-)
> 
> 
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