I have been happy with my standard screen Thinkpad T30, and use it for thousands of hours a year. But it is getting worn out, and repair parts are vanishing. Most particularly hard drives - it uses PATA drives, and those are getting rare.
But I may have waited too long to replace it. I want a 4x3 screen, and they don't make laptops with those anymore, just W.GA displays. Wrong direction. I write 8.5x11 text documents. I would love a 3x5 tall screen, deploy and rotate, full page, but nobody ever made those for laptops. Okay, you love widescreens, and you think I am an idiot, and I think you are an idiot, but let's move past that. There is a hack. See: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_a_QXGA_display_in_a_R/T60_or_61 Extreme laptop modders are adding QXGA ( 2048x1536 ) displays to late R series or T series Thinkpads. I can buy a 15 inch T61 (perhaps used, with a busted screen), buy one of the QXGA screens for about $200, modify the EDID codes on the panel, and I will have the laptop of my dreams. Although the pixels are too small for my normal xterms ( 2 wide, 80 characters each, 5x7 fonts ) they will be great with double-sized 10x14 fonts, and I imagine I can easily scale images to drive my 1024x768 projector. I will be taking this on as a project in December or January, hopefully, collecting parts beforehand. Is anyone else interested? Keith P.S. I suppose an alternative is to start designing all my documents in two-column landscape format. Then W.GA displays might be usable. But people already think I'm weird, that would get me institutionalized. Code display would still suck, unless there is a multiple-column xterm client out there. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
