-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE3db5Hl0iXDssISsRAjPtAJ9MaAFhuBzFHBYrQt/k6b9/JutokACfSX/j h+iuTo9A7SENkhqHiAZ0g8U= =Zp8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----