Blu-ray came out too late as an optical disk format. It didn't really catch on. Unless you have a specific need to use a Blu-ray burner, I wouldn't bother with it.
Glad to hear you checked out Think Penguin. I recently learned about them, & they sound like a good shop. They use hardware that's libre software friendly. Also, they're flexible about what distro they provide, unlike System 76. Cheers, Elcaset On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:22 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2013 10:15:04 -0700 > C W <[email protected]> dijo: > > >I don't know if they sell laptop stands or docks, but Think Penguin (in > >addition to Zareason) is a good place to buy computers from. > > Thanks for the heads up. I had not heard of Think Penguin before. Sadly, > they offer only low end laptops. What I want will probably set me back a > couple thousand simoleons. > > At the top of my list at the moment is the Traverse Pro from Puget > Computers in Seattle. It has everything I want except the docking > station. But I can use a USB 3.0 docking station with it, and its USB > 3.0 ports are at the very back of the sides. Its competition is a high > end Thinkpad 530. The Thinkpad offers a perfect docking station, but no > blue-ray burner. > > I have decided to defer the decision until school is out a month from > now. The DVD burner in my T61 doesn't work and one of the two DVD > drives in my desktop has also died. I'm down to one working DVD burner > in the house. But I can limp along for another month. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en K Desktop Environment- Experience Freedom & User Friendliness http://kde.org/ Free Lossless Audio Codec https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Flac Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
