Laptop recommendation

[rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert L Krawitz)]

   From: dsr at tao.merseine.nu
   Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:01:48 -0500
   Cc: discuss at blu.org

   On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:35:01PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
   > I don't particularly care about 3D acceleration; I don't play games
   > any more sophisticated than Minesweeper and I turn off all of the
   > animation, fading, etc. that passes for "innovation" these days.
   > However, the screen resolution is very important -- 1600 is the
   > minimum horizontal resolution I need to have 3 emacs windows side by
   > side in 6x10 font, and I want the highest resolution I can get to more
   > effectively edit photographs and such.

   How does this look?
   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834147194

   HP Compaq nx7400

   You'll want to add RAM, but otherwise it might suit you. The Intel
   graphics chip eats system RAM but has completely open source X
   drivers.

I'd really prefer 1600x1200 to 1680x1050 (I'd take 1920x1200) -- the
widescreen form factor is usually less convenient for working with
photographs than the 4x3 form factor (when you subtract title bars,
the KDE thing at the bottom of the screen, and all that it's probably
another 100 pixels or so lost).  The other problem with shared RAM is
that it hurts overall system performance, due to the graphics stealing
cycles.

I'm actually using an nVidia board on my C840, with the free driver.

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