On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:42 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Heres my Dell X1 against your specs
> Here's what I'm after, with the highest priorities at the top. > > - Working sleep/resume (ie close lid -> sleep, open -> resume) Yes, (the lid close open is signalled to acpi, making that sleep is a configuration choice). > - 12 or 14 inch screen Yes > - 1280 pixels or better horizontal resolution Yes (1280x768) > - 60G or larger drive 60 > - 1Gig ram Yup. > - Ethernet Yup, Gb. > - Wireless (source code driver) ipw2200 - proprietary firmware, GPL driver, project run by Intel. > - USB Yes. > - Decent sound in and out. Do you mean speaker and mic quality? or chipsets ? You're welcome to play with mine to test. > - External (preferred) CDROM drive. Yup, powered-USB. > - Good battery life I get a total of 6 hours with my two batteries. (one small @ 2, one large @ 4). > - Availability of external long life battery. ??? > - Firewire ieee1394 - 4 pin. > > Does anyone have any recommendations on machines and/or vendors? HTH, Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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