Woops. I meant to send this to more than just Josh.
Follow up:
I went with the ZaReason "Strata 6770", pimped out with the slower
(2.2GHz versus 2.5GHz) core i7, 8GB RAM, a 750GB 7200RPM disk, and Tux
logo and on the key between FN and left Alt (nominally the "Windows"
key).
I did wind up repl
"Brian St. Pierre" writes:
>
> On 04/12/2012 03:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> > I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also:
> >
> > http://www.system76.com/
>
> I'm one of those people -- writing this on one of their laptops. I also
> own a netbook.
Speaking of netbo
On 04/15/2012 04:21 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Actually, I'm considering a new laptop, too. I love my Gateway, but it lacks
> one significant thing: the ability to hold 8 GB of RAM, which is *really
> handy*
> for running virtuals. Additionally, if I need that extra oomph to run 64-bit
> virtua
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> wrote:
>> You have to pick `what kind of business you are' *before* you pick
>> what broad class of device you want to look at.
>>
>> I hate other people's ontologies, sometimes
>
> De
On 04/12/2012 03:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also:
>
> http://www.system76.com/
I'm one of those people -- writing this on one of their laptops. I also
own a netbook.
The laptop has been good. No major complaints. It's heavy and
On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 18:48 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Bill Freeman wrote:
> >> You're looking at the wrong part. CPUs are commodities these days.
> >
> > Not quite, if I understand correctly. I wouldn't want, for example, a
> > core i3, since it doesn't support
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
> You have to pick `what kind of business you are' *before* you pick
> what broad class of device you want to look at.
>
> I hate other people's ontologies, sometimes
Dell is particularly bad when it comes to this. Their various
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Bill Freeman wrote:
>> You're looking at the wrong part. CPUs are commodities these days.
>
> Not quite, if I understand correctly. I wouldn't want, for example, a
> core i3, since it doesn't support "virtualization technology", so I
> wouldn't be able to run 6
Actually, I'm considering a new laptop, too. I love my Gateway, but it lacks
one significant thing: the ability to hold 8 GB of RAM, which is *really handy*
for running virtuals. Additionally, if I need that extra oomph to run 64-bit
virtuals that i3's don't have, that would be big, too.
So:
- 1
On 04/15/2012 08:36 AM, Bill Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Ben Scott wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
>>> Any bad experiences with the i7 CPU?
>> You're looking at the wrong part. CPUs are commodities these days.
>> Core logic chipset, video ch
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
>> Any bad experiences with the i7 CPU?
>
> You're looking at the wrong part. CPUs are commodities these days.
> Core logic chipset, video chipset, disk controller, network controller
> ar
Joshua Judson Rosen writes:
>
> Ben Scott writes:
> >
> > For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude
> > line instead. Inspiron is their consumer line, designed for people
> > who buy based on price and the color of the lid. Latitude is the
> > business line, designed
Ben Scott writes:
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
> > Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons?
>
> For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude
> line instead. Inspiron is their consumer line, designed for people
> who
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
> Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons?
For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude
line instead. Inspiron is their consumer line, designed for people
who buy based on price and the color
On 04/13/2012 04:17 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>
> C'mon. We're in New Hampshire/MA. I can't believe nobody's mentioned my
> personal favorite: https://www.google.com/search?q=decwriter
>
> After the computer labs closed for the night on my campus, there was one
> VT-102
> per dorm. Except for o
On 4/13/12, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:11:11 -0400 Bill Freeman wrote
>
>> On 4/13/12, Ric Werme wrote:
>> > And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop
>> > monitor.
>> > We really used 640x480 displays once upon a time? At least those were
>> > (most
Crud...
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> You sent this to me not the list.
>
> On 04/13/2012 09:21 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> > I used to get Toshiba. I liked the physical volume knob they *used*
> > to have.
> >
> > My last 2 purchases were IBM/Lenovo. A cheap G450 which
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:11:11 -0400 Bill Freeman wrote
> On 4/13/12, Ric Werme wrote:
> > And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop monitor.
> > We really used 640x480 displays once upon a time? At least those were
> > (mostly) better than Teletypes, and those were bette
Many thanks to all. I have several avenues to explore, now that my
taxes are done.
I'll report back with my decision.
Bill
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On 4/13/12, Ric Werme wrote:
> And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop monitor.
> We really used 640x480 displays once upon a time? At least those were
> (mostly) better than Teletypes, and those were better than keypunches.
There was time of 320x200. And I remember F
On 13-Apr-2012, David Ohlemacher sent:
> My last laptop was (still in use) a Lenovo T61. It was
> mistakenly ordered with Vista. We only used XP and Linux. When
> XP was installed, it just never worked - blue screened every
> day. So I inherited the misfit and installed Linux. Works
> great. It is
Well, here's my two cents.
I have a Lenovo X201 tablet. It was expensive and the screen is small and you
probably don't need a tablet.
But, because the screen gets jerked around so much, it seems to be made better
than other Thinkpad models. The assembly is much sturdier and the screen can be
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, David Ohlemacher wrote:
>
> I looked at Dell and bought a Precision M6500 I7. Dell gives us pretty
> good corp discounts. It is currently running LMDE(xfce). It has been
> great. We have several, others running Windoze.One coworker has had
> nothing but tro
Hello Bill,
My last laptop was (still in use) a Lenovo T61. It was mistakenly ordered
with Vista. We only used XP and Linux. When XP was installed, it just
never worked - blue screened every day.So I inherited the misfit and
installed Linux. Works great. It is a nice work horse. Nice keybd.
Asus has great laptop hardware, support, and protection plans available.
They tend to be very Linux friendly and some models are available with
Linux installed, last I knew, or maybe just with no OS. The current ASUS
website does not lend itself to figuring this out, or figuring out which
model is
Bill Freeman writes:
> Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons?
I've got a Dell Inspirion 1525 that I paid $400 for at the Dell
refurbished outlet (online). The machine is 3-4 years old at this
point. I use it for a couple of hours most days.
It's a $400 laptop. It
Less useful account, perhaps.
In order to put off upgrading my Suse 10.1 desktop system (Firefox V2), last
year I decided to buy a cheap laptop, and found a $150 off deal on a Lenovo
G560 system for $400. I forget the specs, let me know if you want them.
It came with Windows 7 Home, the old lapt
On 04/12/2012 03:06 PM, Randy Cole wrote:
> I've been rather disappointed with my few year old HP DV4-1222NR AMD
> consumer-grade laptop. Slower than it should be, runs hot, power
> adapter failed, battery failed early, mouse button broke, fan is now
> failing, and the IDT sound chip has lots of dr
We have Lenovo Laptops at work. Some are T420 (Intel i5) and some are
T220 (Celeron). We've installed Virtualbox on some with 64-bit RHEL 5 as
a guest OS.
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On 04/12/2012 04:01 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
>
> I find the touchpads annoying enough (my thumb brushing it
> unintentionally) that I don't like either, and virtually always use
> an external mouse. But the nub is no draw for me.
I, myself, *love* the nubs, but for practical reasons, wound up with
On 4/12/12, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> I have experience with ZaReason, and recommend them:
>
> http://www.zareason.com/
>
> I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also:
>
> http://www.system76.com/
I'll consider these, thanks.
> When I bought my and my wife's Thinkp
Bill Freeman writes:
>
> My Acer is scaring me. Sometimes at startup it goes into an infinite
> reboot loop. The way out seems to be to force power off, flex the
> case and whack it a few times, after which it boots.
>
> So, I'm considering replacing it. Last round I insisted on an AMD
> CPU,
My own day job has me with a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 which has been pretty
solid and fast. It came with XP and is ready for 7 and I have a vm on it
with CentOS 6. The company is now issuing more Thinkpads that come with
8GB RAM and an option of RH, Fedora or Ubuntu. The RH laptop of a
colleague i
I've been rather disappointed with my few year old HP DV4-1222NR AMD
consumer-grade laptop. Slower than it should be, runs hot, power adapter
failed, battery failed early, mouse button broke, fan is now failing, and
the IDT sound chip has lots of driver support trouble vis. built-in mic
("HD microp
My $DAYJOB has provided me with a rather capable Lenovo ThinkPad CORE i7 W520.
rather large for the daily commute the size of the power brick is unreasonable looks like an actual
full size brick.
Never had problems running Linux on the ThinkPad products. Unfortunately it was pre-installed
My Acer is scaring me. Sometimes at startup it goes into an infinite
reboot loop. The way out seems to be to force power off, flex the
case and whack it a few times, after which it boots.
So, I'm considering replacing it. Last round I insisted on an AMD
CPU, but I'm currently drawn to an i7 or
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