Re: new computer

2013-01-15 Thread Jason Barbier
On 2013-01-15 09:59, sven falempin wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:40 AM, john slee wrote: On 10 January 2013 22:21, Matt Morrow wrote: > You do realize the typical life of a battery is about a year? Poppycock. My FondletopPro battery still gives damn close to the performance it gave ne

Re: new computer

2013-01-15 Thread sven falempin
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:40 AM, john slee wrote: > On 10 January 2013 22:21, Matt Morrow wrote: > > > You do realize the typical life of a battery is about a year? > > > Poppycock. > > My FondletopPro battery still gives damn close to the performance > it gave new in early 2011. The battery in

Re: new computer

2013-01-11 Thread john slee
On 10 January 2013 22:21, Matt Morrow wrote: > You do realize the typical life of a battery is about a year? Poppycock. My FondletopPro battery still gives damn close to the performance it gave new in early 2011. The battery in my Fondleslab 3GS is near 4 years now and hasn't degraded that muc

Re: new computer

2013-01-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Buy a refurbished ThinkPad, still better older ThinkPad Anyone know of a good place to look for and what model the latest thinkpad with fullscreen/without widescreen would be. I'm guessing fullscreen and usb3 and pci express is an impossible mix never minding throwing in running superbly on Op

Re: new computer

2013-01-10 Thread Zoran Kolic
> Buy a refurbished ThinkPad, still better older ThinkPad than > shitty plastic Acer/Asus crapbook. Not an option. At my place there is no market of that type. Further people do not buy laptops of business kind. I will change the subject, to closely match questions I have. Best regards all

Re: new computer

2013-01-10 Thread Matt Morrow
You do realize the typical life of a battery is about a year? The life of a battery, when it has reached its expected and standard life does not reflect the quality of a pc. At any rate, it's not my intention to debate the quality of a particular brand or OEM. But, I like to defend a product when m

Re: new computer

2013-01-09 Thread K . André Braselmann
Buy a refurbished ThinkPad, still better older ThinkPad than > shitty plastic Acer/Asus crapbook. > > jirib > > I've got 3 pieces of them in the basement. After 1095 days (warranty in germany: 3 yrs) battery is dead (spare 100€) and the rest will also give up in the next half year. Seems to be the

Re: new computer

2013-01-09 Thread Olivier Calzi
Exactly, we are not here to debate about which firm is better but for the probleme every one can be met with openbsd or some subjects about technologie which is on Openbsd. Best Regards Olivier Calzi 2013/1/9 Matt Morrow > Your comments about asus are strictly personal opinion. I've owned an A

Re: new computer

2013-01-09 Thread Matt Morrow
Your comments about asus are strictly personal opinion. I've owned an Asus laptop for more than a year and it has been rock solid. I've knocked it onto the floor a couple of times, it has been banged around and it's still going strong. Also cheaper than a thinkpad. > > Buy a refurbished ThinkPad,

Re: new computer

2013-01-09 Thread Jiri B
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:53:08PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > For some future period I will get new node to run on openbsd. > First dilema is to have laptop or desktop. Both have something > to learn about supported hardware. I'd like to know what are > popular el cheapo parts. Current, since at m

new computer

2013-01-09 Thread Zoran Kolic
For some future period I will get new node to run on openbsd. First dilema is to have laptop or desktop. Both have something to learn about supported hardware. I'd like to know what are popular el cheapo parts. Current, since at my place anything older than 1-2 years cannot be found. 1. For deskto

New computer.

2010-07-25 Thread Mateusz Gierblinski
Hi misc@ My desktop pc is suffering slow death and I'm looking to get a new computer. I was thinking about i7 CPU, SSD drive and second monitor. I have still my trusty Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS that works fine with nv driver. I also need second monitor. And here comes my question. What mother