11/30 Currently looking at laptops. Is a 12" screen okay or too hard
to maneuver? What are the top options that I should get?
Dell? Gateway? WinBook? Sony? Compaq?
\_ http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2000q4/transmeta - 11hr battery life
\_ Can someone provide a more convincing URL?
\_ Can someone provide a more convincing URL? TMTA has sounded
so good since their introductory news conference, but for the
last two weeks I've been suspecting that they suck today.
\_ depends on what you want to do with it. are you going to replace
your desktop with it, or are you going to use it as a supplement?
also, don't forget IBM.
\_ bad Chucky, no IBM for BSD!
http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html
\_ I don't understand IBMs obsession with LinSUX. Perhaps
\_ I don't understand IBMs obsession with redhat. Perhaps
\_ I don't understand IBMs obsession with RedHat Linux. Perhaps
after years with AIX anything looks good.
\_ Get a PowerBook G3 400, 192 MB Ram, 10 GB HD & Airport. It is
pretty cheap and you get 14" Active-Matrix TFT display, 2 USB
ports, 2 FireWire ports, VGA video out, S-Video out, 10/100
Ethernet, Wireless Ethernet (no antenna sticking out like on a
PC laptop), 56K modem, 8 MB video ram (Rage128 Mobility), a
fast DVD/CDROM drive, and 5-7 hrs battery life. It is the best
laptop on the market and with OSX you can run a real OS
\_ I work at Apple. I've used the damn beta. Trust me. OSX is
not something you want to put on your machine until they're
finally done with it. But at least it's a good start to
replace their kludgy OS9. One of the things I've learned
from working here is that Apple users (like Linux, WinXX,
FreeBSD users) can get extremely passionate and religious
about their particular OS or platform and, as a result,
tend to blabber about how great their OS is. It's
important to think realistically. Every OS sucks in its
own respect and every OS is cool in its own respect (well,
maybe not Windows). But it's all about your own personal
\_ Zealot! :P
preference and needs and other people's may be different
than yours. Religious wars won't get you anywhere.
\_ Uh, I'm using OSX on a daily basis. Yeah the beta has
some limitations, but it has emacs, ssh, nfs, bash,
terminal.app, perl, cc, c++, javac and most of what you
would find on a BSD install. I can get almost all my work
real OS like LinSUX.
done on OSX without any problems.
real OS like redhat.
(FreeBSD 3.2 + mods + upgrades) not a rickety clone of a
real OS like RedHat Linux.
\_ yeah but can' I run my windows games on it? If not its just
another overpriced paperweight.
\_ Well, yeah. I run some games like Monkey Island and
Myth on my PB G3 using Win98 on Virutal PC. Its okay.
I've tried Tiberian Sun and its also playable. Which
games did you specifically have in mind? Baulders Gate,
Diablo 2, UT, Q3A, Pod Racer, Boob Raider etc have Mac
versions.
The Mac can also play most playstation games, even
Japanese ones under VGS. The PC version isn't nearly
as good (and don't tell me about BLEEM, it can't hold
a candle to VGS on a Mac). The games I normally play
are Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (has sound and music
on the Mac unlike PC), Gran Turismo I and II, Driver
and Need For Speed High Stakes. They all run great,
much faster than on a real PSX or even a PIII 700.
\_ I have to say, VGS kicks ass as a playstation
emulator (esp. the cracked version). It simply
buries bleem. With Virtual PC, there's almost
no reason to buy a PC unless you want to
play brainless games like Quake. The mac
may not have as many games as the PC, but
it has the quality few that you'll want to
play and still be useful enough to do
for practical purposes under an OS that
doesn't have to be re-installed every
several months....
\_ Uh, Quake I, II and III Arena are
available natively for MacOS, as are
Unreal and Unreal Tournement. There is
full support for OpenGL RAGE (the ATI
stuff) and RAVE (the 3DFX stuff). The
entire line of voodoo cards work just
fine under MacOS. MacOS also has good
support for all those nifty PSX style
USB that the PC gamers envy.
My brother plays UT on his G3 466 +
Voodoo 3 with exceptional frame rates;
enough to kick the FAtlon 1 GIG and PIII
players arses every time.
The only mainstream PC game without a
mac version is Half-Life (and I'm pissed
about that, since the "beta" rocked).
Supposedly HL2 is coming to Mac...
\_ Windows Games? You want a laptop for Windows Games?
Sorry, I thought that you were going to use it to do
some REAL WORK using a REAL OS.
\_ I wanna play games AND do real work.
\_ Choose one or the other. Real work cannot be
performed on a WinTenDo.
\_ That sucks!
\_ please let me know if you find a laptop with a kickass
3D video card.
\_ PowerBook G3. Rage128 Mobility. Best video card in
any laptop. The PB kicks ass. PC vendors are still
trying to get into the technology that Apple had in
the PB100 and PB500 lines. |
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