Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:37:36 -0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324133736.R1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200003242118.NAA27332@kithrup.com>; from sef@kithrup.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:18:10PM -0800 References: <200003242059.NAA09850@nomad.yogotech.com> <200003242111.NAA01676.kithrup.freebsd.mobile@mass.cdrom.com> <200003242118.NAA27332@kithrup.com>
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On Friday, 24 March 2000 at 13:18:10 -0800, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > In article <200003242111.NAA01676.kithrup.freebsd.mobile@mass.cdrom.com> you write: >> Why bother bringing your laptop if the screen is too small to do real >> work on? > > My screen is 1024x768x16, and I'm quite happy with it, it turns out. The > 1024x768 is too small for my tastes, but using fvwm and four "virtual > desktops" usually solves that particular problem. Or works around it. > Although I have my laptop set up to do development, its main use is > as an X terminal (and jukebox, now that I've gotten sound working > [although I had to get a cdd binary from 3.4 since the port is > hopelessly broken now :(]). I find that I increasingly use my laptop for maintaining continuity while traveling. For that purpose, I need as close an approximation to my home setup as possible. Unfortunately, nobody seems to sell a laptop with two 1600x1200 displays :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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