I've been using an Inspiron 600m for like 3.5 years and it's been...pretty ok...and I like having a SXGA+ screen in a pretty compact (14.1") package, even if my onscreen desktop still looks identical to the desktop compost on my physical desk.
I worry mostly about *heat*...especially lliving in Zululand and not having aircon at home...my biggest problem is *probably* the 3.5 year old Mandrake 10.0 I live in...but I have to run speedstep and throttle the CPU severely to keep the temp at ~50C (if I don't run speedstep, it climbs up to 70C+ quite quickly). However, on the (rare) occasions I run Windows, I don't seem to have heat problems (just from the fact that the case stays cool), and Ubuntu live also seems to run much cooler, 38-40C. ...however, I also notice on Ubuntu live 7.10 that the wibbly-wobbly windows and other "desktop effects" aren't supported on my paid-$100-extra-for Radeon 9000, whereas they *are* on my wife's new bargain basement HP530 with Intel eXtreme. So clearly I'm going to need a new laptop as well... But, if not Dell...then getting anything other than WXGA screens from other manufactures pushes you well into the higher-cost/diminishing returns scale. I'm wondering if I can live on a WXGA screen, whether it might save me lots of hassles (connecting to data projectors, etc), and just running a two monitor setup at work/home is a better idea? (and I suppose Compiz/wibbly-wobbly windows don't work with multiple monitors?) On Jan 7, 2008 11:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using a Dell Inspiron 9300 for two years now and am very > happy with it. The 1920x1200 screen is awesome and the keyboard is > excellent. I run Ubuntu on it and use VMWare for Windows (for Lotus > Notes and Office). > > On Jan 7, 10:55 am, "Bruce S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Heinz, > > > > The Dell after service sounds fantastic - did the the service engineer > > that went to Crete get to holiday a little too ;-). > > > > Having looked at the Dell site, the prices seem reasonable too - will > > take a more detailed look later. > > > > Thanks very much for the detailed advice - am not in a mad rush so > > will wait for the quad-core processors I think. > > > > Cheers, > > Bruce > > > -- Soren Aalto Director: ICT University of Zululand --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
