[GRLUG] laptop suggestions

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:35:49PM +0000, Lord Drachenblut wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2013 7:33 PM, "Topher" <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
> 
> > I need a new laptop, and I have some pretty specific desires.
> >
> > 1. very thin.  I'd get a mac book air if it had normal hardware.
> >
> > 2. I'd really love for it to push my 30" monitor at 2560x1600 so I could
> > use it exclusively
> >
> > 3. the rest is pretty normal these days.  tons of ram, SSD drive etc.
> >
> > I'm looking pretty hard at the Lenovo X1 Carbon, it does everything I
> > want.  I talked with someone about the monitor and they said the display
> > port can translate to DVI-D, which is what the monitor needs.
> >
> > Are there any other options I should be looking at?
> > 
> You might give a look at some of the offerings of system 76 or zareason.
> They have some really incredible machines that might fit your needs

For what it's worth, System 76 is considerably less expensive for
similar hardware specs. I have a couple of their machines and am quite
pleased with the quality.
-- 
john-thomas
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