System 76: Who's gonna buy a Darter?

[Aetherius]

bugger it, lets just all speak Irish

IS MAITH LIOM UBUNTU!



(Phonetics: Iss My Lum oobuntu)

[raublekick]

i am sitting here in the cyber cafe at school wishing my 17" inspiron was a Darter...

i think this Inspiron can last me a while as a nice workhorse machine. so, when i graduate and look for another laptop, i think i will definitely be considering the darter as a nice compliment to this hulk.

[Zed]

So close... but the Fn key in the lower left corner to screw up my muscle-memory for ctrl sequences and the lack of DVI tank it for me.

[Brunellus]

So close... but the Fn key in the lower left corner to screw up my muscle-memory for ctrl sequences and the lack of DVI tank it for me.

I've adapted remarkably well to my similarly laid out IBM 570E keyboard. The bigger gripe is that ESC is so small that it makes using vim a bit tedious. Maybe I'll remap CAPSLOCK to ESC. Maybe you could remap CAPSLOCK to CTRL.

[loserboy]

ewww... intel

# Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz 4MB 667FSB
# 1.5 GB DDR2 667 MHz
# 60 GB 7200 RPM
# Intel 802.11 a/b/g Wireless
# Bluetooth
# SD Card slot
# Intel 945GM

actually I havn't played with any dual core inels yet so I guess i shouldnt say that

[nalmeth]

Everyone badmouths the intel video cards..

They don't do high-end gaming, but for having free drivers, in an integrated card, they are pretty damn good.

I have an intel 915 integrated at home. Its alright, but not great. As a benchmark, nexuiz runs poorly on it.

At work I have an intel 945, same as this laptop. Beryl runs fantastically fast, Nexuiz runs great. I'm sure WoW runs great on it too.

Who needs high-end gaming on a small portable laptop? If it can run Nexuiz, a game seemingly not optimized for speed yet, I'll be damned if its not good enough for me.

[loserboy]

actually i was talking about the cpu.
heck I can't insult integrated video cards....thats like making fun of integrated monitor speakers...

[josys36]

Windows key on a preinstalled GNU/linux machine? Come on. This is like Ford sticking the Toyota symbol on the new Fusion just because Toyotas use internal combustion engines, too.

They also run windows.

[Insomniac20k]

not really, your analogy is flawed. If they used the SAME internal combustion engine you might be abit closer to actually being able to apply that... also if the new fusion was actually built into a toyota chasis, then u'd be damn near a good anology. Unfortunately, its not and you're not.

I do believe Toyota uses Ford transmissions or something

[loserboy]

maybe a new analogy?

something like "it's like ford sticking their badge on a RX-8 just because Ford essentially owns mazda"