Andrew Lentvorski 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'm waiting for someone to take this to court. It is a clear violation
of the Contitution. (you know, the 5th Amendment? The minor part about
being deprived of property?)
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?
I defer back to another thread regarding my Intel board. The entire
system was ~$690 (I actually exchanged some admin work for it, and the
contract with the exact price is not with me at the moment.). Components
purchased at Fry's and assembled by myself and the guy I did the work
for. BTW, that price included a copy of Vista Home Premium (so, knock
the cost of that off the top since you won't be buying that.)
PGA
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