Re: laptop thoughts/suggestions

2020-03-27 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
You might consider a second (much larger) display. Your graphic card should be able to support them. From: "Richard Shaw" mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> Date: Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 21:15:22 To: "Community support for Fedora users" mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: laptop thoughts/suggestions

2020-03-27 Thread Roger Heflin
On your 17" make sure it has the right resolution. Last time I looked (about 8 months ago), there were cheaper 17" with 1600x800 (or less) vs 1080 displays. My eyes suck but I can generally see a 1080 17". If you are only doing GIMP and no games the basic (non-amd/non-nvidia) chip should be good

Re: laptop thoughts/suggestions

2020-03-27 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 16:28, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > thinking of a new laptop > It is hard to make suggestions without knowing how it will be used: games, development, number crunching, neural nets, data bases, ... Do you hope it will last 3 years (big technology improvements) or 5 years (after

Re: laptop thoughts/suggestions

2020-03-27 Thread John Mellor
On 2020-03-26 3:26 p.m., bruce wrote: Hi. thinking of a new laptop base specs at least 4 core at least 8-12G with ability to expand to 16/32 1TB and SSD would be ok bluetooth 17" usb/hdmi of course i'd prefer new, as opposed to used and of course as cheap as possible thoughts/comments I'm

Re: laptop thoughts/suggestions

2020-03-26 Thread Richard Shaw
Is the 17" negotiable? Looking at Amazon, a Ryzen 5 3500U would be a good option but the 17" raises the price by ~$200. Thanks, Richard ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraprojec