[plug] Gentoo latest emerge and now TINY fonts in xorg (NOW [OT])

[Jonathan Young]

Shannon Carver wrote:

>On this topic  (but off topic to this forum), does anyone know of any
>laptop manufacturers apart from Dell who sell laptops with High def
>screens for a reasonable price?  For as little as $200 on the standard
>price you can get the 15.4" Dell monitor capable of 1920x1200 over the
>bottom model which can only do 1024x768.
>
>Yet I look around at other manufacturers and the standard monitor seems
>to be 1024x768 across the board, with a few offering 1280x1024.
>
>I demand screen real estate.  I don't mind if I need to squint to read
>text :P
>  
>
My last two have been the Compaq Evo N800V @ 1400x1050 and my current 
Toshiba M60 @ 1680x1050.  Both support their respective resolutions 
properly, visibly and fully to the dimensions of the LCD panel installed 
being 15.x" and 17" widescreen respectively, but will go much higher if 
an external LCD is connected (something I have never bothered to do).  I 
refuse to go lower than 1400x1050 and although I'm not a big fan of 
widescreen yet, at that resolution you actually get an extra strip of 
usable space down the side of what I was used to looking at.

It all depends what kind of money you are spending on a laptop, though.  
I have had to go up to $3500 minimum to $5000 maximum to get what I want 
in the past.  Although even most $1500 laptops now support 1280x800 (15" 
widescreen) in my experience.  The Toshiba S2 would have been my runner 
up and closer to the $3000 mark, but still with 1400x1050 like my old Evo.

I have rarely been in a situation where I am adding a couple of hundred 
to get this feature or that feature.  Usually by the time I specify CPU, 
RAM and other features (256MB video) the model I end up with already has 
the high-res screen included.

If you CALL Toshiba directly, you generally get a salesperson answering 
the phone.  In each case I have read out a few minimum requirements and 
he has read back a short-list of models.  Highly recommended as a place 
to start.

-- 
Jonathan Young
Director of PC-PHIX
jonathan at pcphix.com

Phone: 0410 455 674
Web: http://www.pcphix.com/

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