Thanks to all those who replied, Thomas Kluyver, Ian Park, Aaron West and particularly Ben Parsonage. Ben - I think you have solved the problem. The Dell Inspiron machine looks like it will do very well. I investigated Entroware some time ago, but they do not reply to email. At the time I was looking for a screen with greater vertical resolution, but they all cost a great deal more. I have now made the particular program in question detect the screen size and adjust the output window accordingly, so that is no longer a problem.
Thomas: > 1. Graphics cards: If you're not interested in gaming, stick to > Intel integrated graphics. Only worthwhile game I've ever known was bz, which ran on a Silicon Graphics Unix cluster (this was years ago). The Dell machine does indeed have Intel graphics. Aaron: > making it work(For me at least) can be half the fun! I dare say it is, but I have other things to do and would rather have something that "just works" with Linux already installed. Peter Alefounder. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------