On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 12:00 +0000, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote:
> I may be in the market for a new general purpose laptop in early 2010. > I currently use a Thinkpad R61 and I'm reasonably happy with it > although the Intel wireless is hopeless under the currently-installed > Jaunty (haven't tried upgrading yet, I work around it with a PC wifi > card). It's a 15.4" screen with a resolution of 1680x1050 and that's > really spoilt me. While I find 15.4" a little hefty when out and > about, I really like the high resolution. I was looking around the > Lenovo site and it seems like they don't offer as high resolutions > anymore on the 14" models. I might have been willing to go down to > 1440x1050 or 1440x900 but it doesn't seem available. I was interested > in what other brands were highly valued but your post has made me more > likely to stick with Thinkpads, if I could find a good balance of size > vs. resolution.. Cheers, Andy Don't, whatever you do, buy anything from Linux Certified in California, no matter how high the screen resolution. I bought from them last year and because of the non-standard interface driver they saw fit to substitute for the one Ubuntu upgrades expect, I had endless difficulties, as many here will recall. Finally, the machine burned out, and upon returning it, I was told it was my own fault for somehow introducing a short into the motherboard, which would be hard considering I never opened the machine up. Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
