Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 07:41:42 09/23/03
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On September 23, 2003 at 07:29:18, Anatoli Sirota wrote:
>I am looking for a new notebook and probably I'll buy a bit closer to the New
>Year eve. Yesterday I received the latest Australian Computer Magazine and they
>advertised 2 differant laptops from Dell. Please have a quick look at them:
>
>Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Prosessor 3.06 Ghz, 512 DDR SDRAM, 40 GB Hard Drive,
>32 MB DDR ATI Mobility Radion 9000 AGP 4X Graphics, DVD +RW Combo Drive (
>Burn DVD and CD), Modem, 15" SXGA+ TFT Display (1400 x 1050 res.) Cost -
>AUS$2999.
>
>And another one:
>Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Prosessor 2.6 Ghz - Ì , 512 DDR SDRAM, 80 GB Hard
>Drive, 64MB DDR nVidia GeForce 4 4200 Go AGP 4X Graphics, 15.4" Wide-Aspect
>UltraSharp etc. Cost- AUS$3999
>
>Which one is most suitable for chees ? Does it make any sence to pay extra $1000
>for the second laptop ? I see that it has a bit better graphic card, a bigger
>HDD and a wider display. But does it cost $1000 ?
For US$2000, you can get a 15 inch PowerPC G4 notebook; see:
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index15.html
I have an earlier model of one of these and it works very well. The GUI runs on
OpenBSD Unix, the development tools are free, the X Window server is free, and
it has everything needed to make applications that are portable to Linux or
other reasonable environments.
For US$1000, you can get a 12 inch PowerPC G3 notebook; see:
http://www.apple.com/ibook
It has all the same free software as the more expensive model in a smaller
package.
There are a number of free and commercial chess applications; GNUchess (wthi
voice control) is included as part of the standard package. Crafty runs fine,
and xboard should work under the X Window server.
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