On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 04:46:29PM +0100, Karel Lang AFD wrote: > The laptops you talk about are 6+ yrs old now ... will be 12yrs then. > After that its museum piece :].
Again - the reason for 32 bit is not that I cherish old CPUs with inadequate RAM - but that I am currently looking at a 15 inch diagonal (12x9 inch) 2048x1536 matt finish screen on a laptop, and such useful screens are no longer made. Indeed, I start with 1600x1200 production laptops and replace the displays with ultra-high resolution NEC prototypes that some friends and I bought when Microsoft refused to support them. They just happen to fit the T60 after some firmware hacking. Production laptops are now made for watching movies and playing games when the boss isn't looking. I do crazy stuff like write A or A4 size papers, construct high resolution graphs, and fill screens with lots of xterms with beautifully rendered text. Chromebook is interesting, but the screen is small and my visual acuity is decreasing. I guess that makes me a museum piece, too. :-) There is a promising local startup that hopes to custom build laptops, using a kit of plug-together boards fit into a 3D-printed case (!!!). But I don't understand how they will survive, much less where I will find more 12x9 inch LCDs in the future. That is why I stockpiled what I have, and accept reduced rendering speed. And that is why I ask here; if anybody runs old machines for compatibility reasons, it would be experimental scientists running multi-year data collections. Perhaps scientists doing very high resolution imaging. There appear to be Thinkpad T60s deployed all over the International Space Station in the pictures I've seen. Yet another museum piece ... Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
