wanted: performance laptop, no windoze tax

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com>:

> On 07/16/2014 02:15 PM, Ben wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com  
>> <mailto:ndbecker2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    What are some recommendations for a relatively high performance
>>    laptop that
>>    works well on linux, and without paying windoze tax?
>>
>>
>>
>> Surprised no one has mentioned zareason.com <http://zareason.com>.  
>> I haven't bought one from them yet, but I'm sooooo tempted ...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>
> ZaReason won't say whether their laptop models go up to 1920 x 1080p  
> on screen resolution. Every laptop I have seen on the market today  
> ls limited to 1364 x 768 resolution. I call that "half-def." Until a  
> laptop delivers "full-def," it will never replace a desktop.

see here: http://zareason.com/shop/Mir-640.html, " a 3k 15.6"  
(2880x1620) IPS LED backlit screen"

D

>
> I like the idea that I can order this maching with Fedora installed  
> at the factory. The only thing is: I've fallen in love with KDE.  
> They won't tell me whether they restrict their pre-installation to  
> Gnome.
>
> Temlakos
>
>



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