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On 2010-09-05, John Blinka <john.blinka@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, all, |
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> My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a |
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> new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. |
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> I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly |
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> prefer to the 1600x900 display on the more modern Inspiron 1545 I own. |
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> Most of what I do now is through a web browser, and I can see much |
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> more of a web page with 1200 lines of display than I can with 900. |
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> And I dislike the massive width of the 1545 which makes it much less |
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> portable than the old 8200. I'd love to replace my 8200 with a |
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> machine of similar dimensions, but thinner and lighter. However, I |
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> cannot find any machine on Dell's website with a 4x3 aspect ratio - |
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> they all seem to be approximately 16x9 now. |
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> So, is 16x9 all that's available now in laptops? |
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Yup, and 16x9 sucks -- it's just an excuse to ship smaller, |
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lower-resolution displays labelled with bigger numbers. |
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Complete ripoff. |
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Grant |
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