> All the semi-tolerable laptops I've seen are upwards
> from 1500e
The S73 series BenQ JoyBook I have mentioned is priced
around 1000.- USD in Indonesia, ergo, less than 1000.-
euro. (And trust me: it's more than "semi-tolerable.")
> for faster boot process
I am on runit (daemontools alike--just better IMO) for
70-80%. (100% runit/daemontools starts to become too
*convoluted*; plus: I LOVE *BSD like init-scripts, their
clarity and manageability.)
> I actually spin down two of the three disks of my
> tabletop computer (w/ noflushd), because they're used
> only infrequently and eat a lot of electricity.
It's a trade-off: non notebook hard disks are not built
for frequent power off: the electricity then eaten for
manufacturing new- /recycling old disks.
> And the Ion statusbar isn't sufficient for that?
the battery status is, e.g., something that looks:
charged: 100%
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
or
discharging: 72%
||||||||||||||||||||||||||-------
or
charging: 20%
|||||||--------------------------
(with "charged: 100%" etc. written in, say,
-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
and the scale written in green, or red, depending from
the status.)
Why do you think such a thing, and others similar,
need to be put in the statusbar?
People can--from the physiology--separate *cognitively*
around five items.
And from the physiology again: the retina is--given some
generic grade of alertness--more reactive for things that
move/shift/flip/change... on the borders/sides than in
the center [guess why]. With xosd I can freely use four,
reasonably two, sides of a screen. And don't have to
bother on what happens beneath it.
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