On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:44, CaT wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:27:05PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Probably if I was going to do what you're planning I'd get an old > > Thinkpad 385XD. PentiumMMX-233, 96M of RAM, 3G hard drive, 800x600 > > display, it's quite an OK little machine. Such a machine is so cheap now > > that if you break one you won't be too upset, and if someone tries to mug > > you for it then you won't do anything too stupid (also you could just > > tell the mugger how old and cheap it was and they might leave you with > > it). > > Hmmm. I dunno. Personally I'd think twice about this. Not because your > points are in any way worthless or anything like that but because old > laptop's lcd pixel refresh rates tend to suck. You get a lot of ghosting > which, while not a problem when you're lookign at a static image or just > typing, can be a downright pain in the eyes when you have to do any > amount of scrolling or pointer-moving. It's the main reason why I wont > consider one.
At the time the Thinkpad 38* series beat the crap out of most other laptops for display quality. A year later most new laptops on sale weren't as good. I played a variety of games on mine and found it to work OK. But it really depends on how fussy you are about such things. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
