@Ndungi,I agree with you on many if not all points.<MyTake /> I have never really seen the reason of getting anything other than an IBM Lenovo. IBM invented the 8086 family of processors in the early 1980s after all. I either go for a Thinkpad if that is within budget or acquire an Ultrabook (or both). That is if you prefer the P.C platform. Otherwise buy a Macintosh. IBM Thinkpads / Ideapads are not pretty but their hardware is quite decent, better than everything else out there. Some more hardcore guys actually get a Mac for the hardware and install GNU / Linux (Free / NetBSD maybe for their software needs).I write software for a living and when the time came for me to replace my *second* Lenovo after leaving University, I settled for an Ideapad z570 which has an aluminium casing and a HDMI port among other things (64 bit core i7 intel processors, 750 Gb harddisk and 8Gb RAM). It only cost me U.S. dollars 530 (around Kshs. 55k using the time's foreign exchange rates) to get a manufacturer refurbished one from Ebay .......Martin.On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:
It really is the case these days that you don't need anything more than USB3 and some sort of video (thunderbolt/DVI) port on a new machine. I haven't even had an Ethernet socket or DVD drive for the past 3 years and haven't missed either of them except maybe once or twice 2 years ago.Ironically, one of my favorite ports on my MacBook Air is the SD card slot. That is actually a nice-to-have for getting photos off of my camera without fiddling with a USB cable.If I was going to buy a non-Mac laptop or even desktop right now, the only expansion requirement I would have is USB3. All those other ports just add weight and size.---Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: https://angel.co/kili-ioMusings: https://twitter.com/varudAbout Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelsonOn Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:Ndungi,Interesting you should raise this. I was looking at desktops the other day (HP, Lenovo and Dell i3) and was disappointed that almost all of them had no expansion slots. The only have one 1 drive bay and 1 SATA port.--On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:
Google's Chromebook Pixel has a 3:2 aspect ratio:But that's a whole different way of doing things.---Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: https://angel.co/kili-ioMusings: https://twitter.com/varudAbout Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:PS : even a 1400x1050 will do.I happen to own an old Lenovo t61, which I bought not more than 6 months ago. Why an old 2nd-hand machine ? It was not because I was on a budget (thank God) but because every laptop coming out after 2006 or thereabout comes with a native screen resolution of 1366 x 768 or thereabout. They are all widescreens. Whither "tallscreens" ?My question, or request, then is to all listers who sell/advertise laptops - is there a laptop freshly out of the production line that could satisfy my quest for a 1600x1050 screen res and is still comfortably light ? Just asking.
My old t61 has a native screen res of 1600x1050. I hardly ever have to scroll. Before the t61 I owned a DELL D600 with a native screen res of 1400x1050, the only reason I left her for the Lenovo was her processor speed. She was slow. Otherwise we were headed somewhere ;-) .
Basically, these days, they have assumed that we all buy laptops for the express purpose of watching movies and gaming. How narrow! What about programmers like myself. A scroll height of 768 pixels or even 900 pixels is not ideal for code. I do not know if there is anyone else who shares my sentiments. Screen resolutions, it seems, have gone the way of skirt lengths - shorter, and only so to entertain.
--Ndungi Kyalo
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