On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]>wrote:
> My T61p is starting to show its age, but I'm having a hard time finding > a replacement. Is it simply not possible to find a great laptop anymore? > > I'm looking for: > - Matte screen > - More than 1080 vertical pixels > - A keyboard that doesn't suck > - Good Linux compatiblity > - High quality construction > (able to withstand constant travel) > > I'm willing to pay for quality, but it seems that most laptops today > are either crappy toys, crippled by sucky screens, or Macs. > > Help me, Plug, you're my only hope! > http://shop.lenovo.com/us/ww/pdf/w520_datasheet.pdf One of the few laptops to have 4 RAM slots, so 16GB RAM is fairly cheap. The one thing it doesn't have is more than 1080 vertical pixels. That's its max, but I've run linux one one for a while now. I can't complain about the keyboard (there is a backlit option which is awesome). Nice Princess Leia reference. -- Obi-w... er, Spencer /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
