I've been looking at the Acer Aspire One myself, but Dell is coming out with a subcompact 'netbook' soon (rumor is that their press conference next Tuesday is to announce it) and I'd like to see how that one looks before choosing what to buy.
Lenovo is also coming out with one next month, but I've already been waiting for a few months and I'm getting impatient, so I probably won't be able to stick it out until then. -Brad On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, with the current kerfuffle that Homeland Insecurity can snag your > laptop indefinitely for no reason, I need to rearrange how I handle my > computing. > > Keeping all of my stuff on a laptop that can get snagged and impounded just > isn't a good idea anymore. The last thing I need is to have to buy and > rebuild my relatively expensive laptop because "Da Gummint" decided it was > in a snit the day I was traveling. > > I figure that normal traveling is going to be an Acer Aspire One. It's > already available at Circuit City, and I can just image it to ground zero > before traveling every time and just access everything remotely from either > my servers or from home via opened port. If it gets grabbed, I'll be > annoyed, but it's cheap and won't be my main machine anyhow. > > The more problematic issue is what is going to become my home desktop. If > it's effectively going to be a remote server, it probably needs to have a > bit more oomph than my current laptop. > > So, I'm staring at a desktop again. Sigh. > > My primary issues are: > > 1) Quiet -- fan/drive whine drives me nuts > 2) Display resolution -- 2560x1600 LCD monitor > 3) Memory -- 4GB with the ability to go beyond > > So, a Mac Mini is close to what I want, but ... > > It's limited to 1920x1200 display and 2GB of RAM. That's *not* acceptable. > > Obviously, I'd like the graphics to have open source drivers, but I think > that the 2560x1600 probably precludes that as none of the Intel integrated > chipsets seem to do that resolution. Sigh. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > -a > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~ E.B. White, writer (1899-1985) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
