Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:09 on Wednesday 08 September 2010, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:58 AM, John Blinka john.bli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:58 AM, John Blinka john.bli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:58 on Sunday 05 September 2010, John Blinka did opine thusly: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this

[gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the 1600x900 display on the more modern Inspiron 1545 I own. Most of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.09.2010 14:58, schrieb John Blinka: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the 1600x900 display

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Al
2010/9/5 John Blinka john.bli...@gmail.com: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the 1600x900 display