William D Waddington wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I plan to buy a new Notebook later this year.The >> primary use of the Notebook should be to run >> OpenSolaris and Ubuntu. >> >> I'm thinking about buying the Thinkpad T60 or T61 and >> therefor I've some questions regarding the hardware >> options for the Thinkpad T60/T61s: >> >> The T60/T61 comes with one of the following graphics >> adapters: >> >> * Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 >> * nVidia Quadro NVS 140m (128MB, 256MB, or 512MB) >> >> Which one of these is best for Solaris? >> > > Here's a comment a question you didn't ask: what screen size and shape? I > have a new T61 14.1" widescreen w/nVidia graphics. I like the form factor > since I carry it in a backpack during my ferry commute. Screen res of this > one is 1440x900. > My observation/complaint has to do with virtualization (I see this mentioned > down-thread). When running VMWare a reasonable host virtual screen > resolution doesn't _quite_ fit within the 900 vertical pixels of the real > screen. Once VMWare has added its window "frame" to the client screen it is > a little too tall to run 1024x768 fully on-screen. 800x600 seems a little > cramped for a client screen. Further, IIRC, some T61s actually have lower > resolution screens. ???x800 I think. I don't have any experience w/Xen. > I like the T61 (which multiboots Linux and Solari OK in addition to the > virtual clients) but I kind of miss my T43's 1400x1050 screen when running > virtual client screens. Oh, and it won't quite fit the website pages I tend > to visit without limiting the font size somewhat. > Kind of an oddball reason for picking a screen resolution. Just my $.02.. > Bill > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Have the same issue with my 15.4" MacBook Pro, I run VMware as well. OSX' menus, dock, and bars take up about the same amount of space as Vista's theme, so I can't run anything better than 1280x720, which works on most guests.
James
