Matthew Hannigan wrote: > Erik, > > You may be interested that the X1 is a rebadged (repackaged?) > Samsung Q30, with added bluetooth. (Rob, correct me if I'm wrong) > > I note that the Q30 now has bluetooth as well; ht.com.au have it > on their website. DickSmith also have it in their powerhouse stores > but don't advertise on their website for some reason.
Thanks Matt, thats really good to know. I would much prefer a place where I can walk in and run a knoppix CDROM to test a machine. Dell makes this a little hard :-). > I just (like an hour ago) bought a Samsung R50, which meets all > your specs, including full 6pin (i.e. powered) firewire and the > availability of a long life battery. Memory is default 512mb but > expandable up to 2gb. Where did you buy? Somewhere in the city? > Complete specs on the net. But note there's a few variations. e.g. > mine has ATI Radeon x600, but some have Intel video card. Once thing I fogot to mention is that I'd quite like to get some decent accelerated 3D graphics as well. Is hardware acceleration available on any of these machines? Cheers, Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "It is grossly irresponsible to connect a Windows machine directly to the net. ;-)" -- John Wiltshire on the Sydney Linux User Group mailing list -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
