Re: [gentoo-user] Re: purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 21 2015, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Allan Gottlieb writes: The hardest decision is size vs performance, but I know you can't help Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps I was unclear. I simply meant that clearly higher performance is better and so is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/06/2015 01:43, walt wrote: On 06/21/2015 12:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I've used nothing bur Dell laptops for 10 years (currently on #5), and I've yet to run into any hardware support issues. Did you replace them because they broke? You wanted the latest trendy color? What's the

[gentoo-user] Re: purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-21 Thread walt
On 06/21/2015 12:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I've used nothing bur Dell laptops for 10 years (currently on #5), and I've yet to run into any hardware support issues. Did you replace them because they broke? You wanted the latest trendy color? What's the real story here? You know you want to

[gentoo-user] Re: purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-21 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: The hardest decision is size vs performance, but I know you can't help Maybe, maybe not. I will definitely get * 16GB ram (2 x 8GB) * 512GB solid state disk * most powerful CPU compatible with the options chosen 1. Graphics.