Posts by darilon

Do what I did - get yourself an Asus Z71V from canadasys.com - it's light enough to carry around, decent (tho not stellar) battery life, great gaming performance (Doom3 on high settings, Everquest at 1680x1050 - pretty sure it'd handle...

I bought a Z71V and have been very happy with it. It's survived a 2 week road trip with the family where it was the primary source of entertainment during the driving portions of the trip (around 6 days) for 2 boys 11 and 14. It is...

My experiences with desktops has led me to avoid ATI cards like the black plague on any system I want to run Linux on and get any form of 3d performance. It's one of the main reasons I went with a Z71V - nvidia graphics.

First I'm gonna talk about the OP's question: Sounds like you mostly need CPU power instead of low temperature heat and long battery life. The AMD64's are very good at least for compiling speed. For multimedia encoding the P4's are...

I just so happen to have downloaded both the live cd and install cd for kubuntu hoary. The live cd boots up and gives a black screen. Suppose I could give the install CD a go and see what happens. As to apt-get, Mandrake has a very...

Ok, I've always pretty much been a Mandrake guy. Been using it since 6.0 or so. I've tried other distros (debian, redhat and many others) but have mostly settled on Mandrake in the end. Now I'm moving in to different territory -...

I've been playing around a bit more with netbeans. Kinda like the newest version.

Print media still exist?

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Gaming in native resolution on my Z71V gives a much better picture imho. Much more immersive 3d environment. I've only run this in Everquest since this almost the only game I play. So far have only run Doom3 in high graphics mode.