RE: Laptop Considerations

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

I agree don't go with the Wide Aspect..it will only cause you Internet
form problems and nothing is designed to work with it yet. I have worked
with many of the 8500 I believe that use Wide UXGA..didn't like it at
all..and ended up turning it off.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaysen E. Sweeting [mailto:jaysen () gdsnv net] 
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 10:33 AM
> To: Munoz, Hector; pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Laptop Considerations
>
> I currently have the D800, the only complaint I have is with the WUXGA
> 15.4 screen. In order to uses the full screen u have to run 
> at 19200X1200. this stretches the screen causing graphics 
> designed for 800X600 or 1024X768 to look horrible and blocky. 
> I have scoured DELL support for a resolution but until 
> graphics designers consider these strange resolutions the 
> problem is here to stay.
>
> D800
> 1024 Dual Channel DDR
> Pentium M 2.1 2MB cache
> Nvidia GeForce FX Go5600 WUXGA
> Bluetooth
> 802.11 a,b,g
> Gig Ethernet
> Windows XP pro
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Munoz, Hector [mailto:hector.munoz () kerrymexico com mx] 
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:33 AM
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Laptop Considerations
>
>  I have a precision M60, it comes with gigabit ethernet, 
> wireless, nice
> HDD
> (40Gb), a huge screen and a Nvidia Quadro FX Go700 card the support
> multiple
> monitors. Currently having it working only with Windows XP SP2 and
> running
> MS Office 2003  smoothly. It has almost the same architecture than the
> D600
> so I believe it can run Linux without troubles.
>
> My 2 cents...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: calvin maready [mailto:cc.cal () verizon net] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 7:36 PM
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Laptop Considerations
>
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> I have a dell xps laptop and it runs great, i have the uxga 
> screen too,
> not
> sure which screen your goin for. the only thing i dont care about for
> dell
> is they only offered ATI cards and no nvidia's, but that might be
> different
> for the model your looking for. as for the wireless, i have a slot for
> it
> but i didn't buy their card cuz i didnt know if it'd be supported or
> not, so
> i've bought a dlink card seperate and have had no troubles. overall,
> compatibility with drivers or hardware including acpi. btw im running
> slackware. if ya have any other questions email me back personally if
> you
> want. goodluck.
>
> On Saturday 11 December 2004 07:47 pm, David Bouchard wrote:
> > I am about to be purchasing a laptop and I was wanting the 
> advice of 
> > the list.  I know this can be a very personal topic for 
> some people, 
> > but I have to throw it out there anyway.
> >
> > Here's my situation...I'm about to be attending a degree program in 
> > Information Assurance and Forensics.  I also have my own business 
> > doing a variety of things computer related.  At some point I would 
> > like to delve more heavily into vulnerability assesment, 
> penetration 
> > testing, and possibly forensics.  I'm looking for a laptop 
> that will 
> > be flexible enough to meet all these needs.
> >
> > This is what my immediate plans for the laptop are:  for my 
> business, 
> > I need to have some of the basic MS Office suite on it, as 
> well as MS 
> > Publisher.  I plan on making it into a dual-boot machine with some 
> > flavor of linux.  I don't care to use a live linux CD 
> because I want 
> > to be able to store logs, settings, and other data onto the 
> drive, and
>
> > I hope to eventually use linux for everything except the MS 
> stuff that
>
> > I have to use on occasion for my business.
> >
> > Because of the variety of things I plan on doing, I want to get one 
> > that has a serial and a parallel port in addition to the 
> USB that they
>
> > pretty much all come with now.  It would be nice to have at 
> least one 
> > PCMCIA slot as well.  I plan to do some wireless network 
> assessment, 
> > so it needs to be wireless capable, but for my purposes 
> being able to 
> > attach an external antennae for extra range isn't that important.
> >
> > What I'm looking at right now is the Dell Latitude D600.  I've 
> > supported and purchased a lot of Dell desktop computers and 
> have been 
> > very happy with them and I have run Knoppix-STD on a Dell laptop and
> everything ran well.
> > The D600 has the ports I'd like.
> >
> > Any thoughts or recommendations?  Any capibilities that you 
> think I've
>
> > missed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
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