Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Omer Zak wrote: > > How are today's ThinkPads (which are probably different from ThinkPads > from years ago)? > There seem to be a notion for slimming down things. Less ports and no DVD (aka secondary HDD bay) bay anymore. Keyboard on newer

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

People replied to my message in private and to the mailing list. In the following, I'll summarize their points and respond to them. -=-=-=-=-=- (1/9) Shachar Shemesh/Roman Ovseitsev: Why connect internal monitor + 3 external monitors? My response: I was not clear in expressing my wishes. What

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

After much consideration, I purchased a Thinkpad W541. The specific model was important because I make heavy use of the Trackpoint(tm) style pointer and other newer models don't have this. My version has a massive 2880 x 1620 pixel display, as I often have multiple things open. Linux install

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

On 29/11/15 17:42, Roman Ovseitsev wrote: > If you need 3 external monitors on top of the internal, without > discrete GPU the only option is a Skylake based laptop. It can pull > off up to 5 monitors through HDMI/DP according to the spec. AFAIK > older architectures support only 3 monitors. >

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

On 29 November 2015 at 15:48, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 29/11/2015 11:05, Omer Zak wrote: > > - Ability to connect 2-3 external displays (possibly via a docking > station). > > May I ask why? Do you plan to connect the internal monitor + 3 external > monitors

Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

After long time of not looking for hardware recommendations, I am again looking for up-to-date hardware recommendations. This time, I'd like to buy a laptop which will serve as my main workhorse PC at home and outside of it. As things look like, I would like it to have: - 16GB RAM. - Ability to

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

On 29/11/2015 11:05, Omer Zak wrote: > - Ability to connect 2-3 external displays (possibly via a docking > station). May I ask why? Do you plan to connect the internal monitor + 3 external monitors simultaneously? You need to be aware that even if there are so many ports (and my

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

If you need 3 external monitors on top of the internal, without discrete GPU the only option is a Skylake based laptop. It can pull off up to 5 monitors through HDMI/DP according to the spec. AFAIK older architectures support only 3 monitors. However since it just got released only a couple months

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

On 29/11/15 21:02, Omer Zak wrote: > (1/9) Shachar Shemesh/Roman Ovseitsev: > Why connect internal monitor + 3 external monitors? > > My response: > I was not clear in expressing my wishes. > What I'd like to be able is to work at home with three monitors. I do > not care if it is 3 external