[plug] Buying a laptop

[Nathan Alberti]

Replying to myself... :s

Topical slashdot article;

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/11/0540217&tid=172&tid=106

Nathan.

Nathan Alberti wrote:
> Excellent choice, as stated I have the standard T42, the P versions have 
> nicer video hardware (mine comes with the 64mb Radeon 9600). The only 
> thing I had to do was get another 512Mb ram (1Gb total) which made it a 
> bit happier for my application.
> 
> Nathan.
> 
> Benjamin Woods wrote:
> 
>> Decision made...
>>
>> Going to get this IBM Centrino laptop.
>> Apparently its f**king fast and brilliant at everything else!
>> I KNOW i will be happy with it (despite the extra cost!)
>>
>> ThinkPad T42p
>> Model 2373KXM
>>
>> http://www-604.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?
>> productId=33038277&storeId=10000036&langId=036&categoryId=2056940&dualCurrId=10 
>>
>> 00089&catalogId=-36
>>
>> Its a beast!
>>
>> Thanks for the help guys.
>> Appreciate it.
>>
>> BTW, the graphics card is this:
>> Graphics chipset: ATI Mobility FIREGL T2
>> Graphics type: UXGA IPS
>> Graphics data width: 128
>> Video RAM std/max: 128MB / 128MB
>> Video RAM type: DDR SDRAM
>> Max resolution (with max video
>> RAM) NI:
>> 2048x1536 16777216 colors
>> Max colors (with max video RAM): 16777216
>> Graphics bus interface: AGP 4X
>> Graphics features: "SuperScene" Full Scene Multisampled antialiasing; 
>> Support for hardware
>> accelerated DirectX and OpenGL
>>
>> sound ok?
>>
>> From: Benjamin Woods
>> woodsb02 at iinet.net.au
>> Registered Linux User #372573 
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