[Wlug] Laptop recommendations anyone?

[Andy Stewart]

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Stephen C. Daukas wrote:
> Anyone have thoughts on acer?  "Linux on Laptops" lists just about every 
> acer notebook...
> A consultant friend of mine sells these "on the side" and thought I 
> might be interested in one
> of these as they are around $1k:
> 
> Acer Aspire           AS5672WLMi
> Acer Travelmate    TM4672WLMi
> Acer Travelmate    TM4222WLMi
> 
> All are Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology,
> All have 1gig ddr-2 RAM 
> All have  15.4 WXGA,
> All have  DVD-RW(+/-) dUAL lAYER,
> All have at least 100gig hard drive  (Aspire has SATA drive 120 gig)
> All have XP Pro
> The Aspire has 128meg ATI X1400 video card the others have the built in 
> Intel Accel 950 chip
> 
> Not bad for the money...  1280 x 800 resolution strikes me as 
> "different" though - perhaps for DVD wide screen?
> 
> Steve

I've noticed many people at work with their laptops, and they seem to
have an LCD which has wide screen dimensions.  This might be fine for
viewing DVDs, but having not used one, I'm not sure how I'd feel using
one for daily work.  Its not like you can rotate the LCD on a laptop to
"landscape mode" like you can with some other LCD monitors (which seems
like a nice feature!).

Later,

Andy

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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org

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